Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Televised courses can be a bargain for financially strapped schools. A district may pay as much as $8,000 for a satellite dish, cordless phones and the electronic keypads or computer terminals needed for students to communicate with their long-distance teachers. That one-time outlay amounts to far less than a conventional teacher's annual salary. Like network anchors, video teachers submit to screen tests and often conduct their classes without a studio audience...
...blame Bobby McFerrin for his stupid song that everyone quotes when telling me to be less tense. I'm worrying; I'm not happy; thank you very much. I blame post-thesis seniors who try to out-do one another explaining how relaxed they are. And I blame my parents, who have given me both the genetic and environmental predisposition to get extremely, extremely tense...
Other junior faculty say the issue should not be granting more time for scholarship, but reordering priorities. Some faculty say that by giving less importance to teaching and service, the University is selling its students short...
...social functions help to perpetuate our success on the field by serving as alumni fundraisers, which help defray the costs of coaching, equipment and transportation during the season. In addition, they help us to maintain our cohesion as a team, but obviously far less so than determination and hard work in practice...
...fact, many junior professors concede that they consciously devote less time to teaching and interaction with students because they know that any efforts they make will not be rewarded...