Hi Jim,

I hope that your summer is going nicely and you are having a chance to
store up some sunshine and do some recreational (non-computer) stuff.

I am appending a brief part of a discussion held recently on the POD
listserv.  As you will see they were concerned with rewards for hard
working faculty.  What they say, of course, is worth reading, but I want
to draw your attention to the fact that SUNY Cortland has a Faculty
Development Center.  As you know, I have always been an advocate of
this.  So many other colleges and universities are making use of this
sort of center and I know from contact with many colleagues, that it is
an enormous help both to faculty and to administration.  I hope that one
can be established on the Oneonta campus.

Mike Siegel

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Hello, All-
Indeed, reward systems for faculty can be viewed as infantilizing. If
money was the motivator for these folks, certainly none of them would
have entered the faculty side of higher education; I can think of about
six dozen more lucrative positions, can't you? Course reductions, time
off in support of research, and opportunities for scholarly growth are
the most appreciated. Though having said that, I've never known a
faculty member who would turn down funds for either a personal or a
departmental library budget!

Laura

Dr. Laura Gathagan
Director, Faculty Development Center
State University of New York at Cortland
P.O. Box 2000
Cortland, NY 13045
607-753-2088

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The best reward is the feeling that your work is important and valued.
This goes for research, teaching and service.  Indicators of support are
ability to get resources (including money and help from the FD Center),
and provision of opportunities, such as released time, summer support,
etc.  The perception is that faculty will only work for money -- this is
not true because money alone is not enough to generate a sustaining
interest and motivation to change.  If the change is not valued by
colleagues, administrators and students, it will be short lived.

Walt Wager | APPS | 850-644-4452
3501 UCC, Mail code 2550
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL  32306-2550