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Professors collect big bucks for online classes - ERIN JORDAN, Des Moines Register
The University of Iowa has capped the number of online students and courses that faculty members can teach after discovering a handful of professors received hefty bonuses for teaching up to three times more classes than their regular loads. Demand for online instruction is growing, leaving universities across the country to wrestle with the issue of how to staff the courses and how to pay for the professors who teach them. The change in how U of I professors are paid for online courses was put in effect this fall after the Des Moines Register started to review faculty at Iowa's three public universities who received bonus pay for taking on additional, or "overload," duties.
  posted by Ray at 11/22/2008 12:10:00 AM permanent item link   

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