Faculty 'Productivity': Charging for Quality

In the "Confessions of a Community College Dean" blog at Inside Higher Ed, Dean Dad notes, with links, an ongoing online discussion in a number of blogs about full-time faculty workload. Dean Dad's focus is on whether or not non-elite institutions can really charge for quality, or not: "A thrilled student doesn't pay any more than does a barely-contented student." He ends up asking: "Is there a sustainable way for colleges to charge by quality rather than quantity?"

A couple of his related thoughts that we thought were interesting:

• What looks like a static workload over time has actually become more due to faculty "mission creep" and
• There's really a minimum limit to class size, below which quality can actually drop.

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