My subunit does far too much of it. It is required to combat the forces that want to close our programs — understaffed, we must remain interesting and have many advanced students.
This is a trap, however, since the service we do to create our right to exist, as it were, cuts heavily into research and also teaching time. That is one more reason to cut programs, teach many student credit hours at lower levels, and just publish.
If the university of the future is a community college with an attached research park, which is what I believe it is, we could be in the vanguard.
Axé.
I do realize that if we did this, it would look as though we were throwing in the towel … but, what if we all got our books out, would that not be revenge enough?