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How does buying out courses with grant money work?



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Normally a professor is paid for eight to nine months each academic year for teaching several courses in the period. However, if a professor gets research grant, he can support himself by the grant in the summer months, or teach less courses.



I'd like to know how it works exactly. Let's say, if a professor only teach the half of the normal load of courses, then he will receive half of his normal salary from the department and the rest is covered by the grant, right? If the grant is large enough, can he choose not teaching any course without loss of pay?










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    Variations of professors' pay is probably proportional to the number of professors...

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    There is huge variation in how it works. What is true one place will be utterly false in another. Some are fully funded by outside sources and don't need to "teach" other than guiding doctoral students. But in many (most?) places the grant recipient can't manage the funds her/himself. An administrative office does and disburses funds when given appropriate documentation. You need to ask the question locally if it is of real concern to you.

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    Guiding doctoral students also needs teaching (graduate) courses generally. I want mainly how it works in mathematics

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    "Guiding doctoral students also needs teaching (graduate) courses generally" - not at all. Advising PhD students is often completely independent of coursework.

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    At [most] US schools you are told a breakdown of the position's time. E.g., 60% research, 20% teaching, 20% service. So buying out of half of your classes is not worth half of your salary.

    – Austin Henley
    yesterday















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Normally a professor is paid for eight to nine months each academic year for teaching several courses in the period. However, if a professor gets research grant, he can support himself by the grant in the summer months, or teach less courses.



I'd like to know how it works exactly. Let's say, if a professor only teach the half of the normal load of courses, then he will receive half of his normal salary from the department and the rest is covered by the grant, right? If the grant is large enough, can he choose not teaching any course without loss of pay?










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  • 4





    Variations of professors' pay is probably proportional to the number of professors...

    – Solar Mike
    yesterday






  • 2





    There is huge variation in how it works. What is true one place will be utterly false in another. Some are fully funded by outside sources and don't need to "teach" other than guiding doctoral students. But in many (most?) places the grant recipient can't manage the funds her/himself. An administrative office does and disburses funds when given appropriate documentation. You need to ask the question locally if it is of real concern to you.

    – Buffy
    yesterday







  • 1





    Guiding doctoral students also needs teaching (graduate) courses generally. I want mainly how it works in mathematics

    – Math Wizard
    yesterday






  • 3





    "Guiding doctoral students also needs teaching (graduate) courses generally" - not at all. Advising PhD students is often completely independent of coursework.

    – Bryan Krause
    yesterday






  • 2





    At [most] US schools you are told a breakdown of the position's time. E.g., 60% research, 20% teaching, 20% service. So buying out of half of your classes is not worth half of your salary.

    – Austin Henley
    yesterday













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Normally a professor is paid for eight to nine months each academic year for teaching several courses in the period. However, if a professor gets research grant, he can support himself by the grant in the summer months, or teach less courses.



I'd like to know how it works exactly. Let's say, if a professor only teach the half of the normal load of courses, then he will receive half of his normal salary from the department and the rest is covered by the grant, right? If the grant is large enough, can he choose not teaching any course without loss of pay?










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Normally a professor is paid for eight to nine months each academic year for teaching several courses in the period. However, if a professor gets research grant, he can support himself by the grant in the summer months, or teach less courses.



I'd like to know how it works exactly. Let's say, if a professor only teach the half of the normal load of courses, then he will receive half of his normal salary from the department and the rest is covered by the grant, right? If the grant is large enough, can he choose not teaching any course without loss of pay?







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  • 4





    Variations of professors' pay is probably proportional to the number of professors...

    – Solar Mike
    yesterday






  • 2





    There is huge variation in how it works. What is true one place will be utterly false in another. Some are fully funded by outside sources and don't need to "teach" other than guiding doctoral students. But in many (most?) places the grant recipient can't manage the funds her/himself. An administrative office does and disburses funds when given appropriate documentation. You need to ask the question locally if it is of real concern to you.

    – Buffy
    yesterday







  • 1





    Guiding doctoral students also needs teaching (graduate) courses generally. I want mainly how it works in mathematics

    – Math Wizard
    yesterday






  • 3





    "Guiding doctoral students also needs teaching (graduate) courses generally" - not at all. Advising PhD students is often completely independent of coursework.

    – Bryan Krause
    yesterday






  • 2





    At [most] US schools you are told a breakdown of the position's time. E.g., 60% research, 20% teaching, 20% service. So buying out of half of your classes is not worth half of your salary.

    – Austin Henley
    yesterday












  • 4





    Variations of professors' pay is probably proportional to the number of professors...

    – Solar Mike
    yesterday






  • 2





    There is huge variation in how it works. What is true one place will be utterly false in another. Some are fully funded by outside sources and don't need to "teach" other than guiding doctoral students. But in many (most?) places the grant recipient can't manage the funds her/himself. An administrative office does and disburses funds when given appropriate documentation. You need to ask the question locally if it is of real concern to you.

    – Buffy
    yesterday







  • 1





    Guiding doctoral students also needs teaching (graduate) courses generally. I want mainly how it works in mathematics

    – Math Wizard
    yesterday






  • 3





    "Guiding doctoral students also needs teaching (graduate) courses generally" - not at all. Advising PhD students is often completely independent of coursework.

    – Bryan Krause
    yesterday






  • 2





    At [most] US schools you are told a breakdown of the position's time. E.g., 60% research, 20% teaching, 20% service. So buying out of half of your classes is not worth half of your salary.

    – Austin Henley
    yesterday







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Variations of professors' pay is probably proportional to the number of professors...

– Solar Mike
yesterday





Variations of professors' pay is probably proportional to the number of professors...

– Solar Mike
yesterday




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2





There is huge variation in how it works. What is true one place will be utterly false in another. Some are fully funded by outside sources and don't need to "teach" other than guiding doctoral students. But in many (most?) places the grant recipient can't manage the funds her/himself. An administrative office does and disburses funds when given appropriate documentation. You need to ask the question locally if it is of real concern to you.

– Buffy
yesterday






There is huge variation in how it works. What is true one place will be utterly false in another. Some are fully funded by outside sources and don't need to "teach" other than guiding doctoral students. But in many (most?) places the grant recipient can't manage the funds her/himself. An administrative office does and disburses funds when given appropriate documentation. You need to ask the question locally if it is of real concern to you.

– Buffy
yesterday





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Guiding doctoral students also needs teaching (graduate) courses generally. I want mainly how it works in mathematics

– Math Wizard
yesterday





Guiding doctoral students also needs teaching (graduate) courses generally. I want mainly how it works in mathematics

– Math Wizard
yesterday




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3





"Guiding doctoral students also needs teaching (graduate) courses generally" - not at all. Advising PhD students is often completely independent of coursework.

– Bryan Krause
yesterday





"Guiding doctoral students also needs teaching (graduate) courses generally" - not at all. Advising PhD students is often completely independent of coursework.

– Bryan Krause
yesterday




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2





At [most] US schools you are told a breakdown of the position's time. E.g., 60% research, 20% teaching, 20% service. So buying out of half of your classes is not worth half of your salary.

– Austin Henley
yesterday





At [most] US schools you are told a breakdown of the position's time. E.g., 60% research, 20% teaching, 20% service. So buying out of half of your classes is not worth half of your salary.

– Austin Henley
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Nearly every school will have a different policy on buying out of teaching.



In the US, many universities have a breakdown of the position's time. For example, you may be hired to do 60% research, 20% teaching, 20% service. At some universities, this means the grants must cover the percentage of your salary that you are buying out of. At others, there is a flat buyout price (presumably the amount it costs to pay an instructor). Although, some also have requirements for a minimum number of courses you must teach per year (can't buy out).






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    most universities have a breakdown of the position’s time. Mine doesn’t. What is your basis for making such a claim?

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    @DanRomik Changed it to "many". I have heard it commonly brought up at conferences and nearly every place I interviewed. I didn't know my position had a time breakdown until recently (it wasn't in the offer or any of the initial paperwork), so it is possible that yours does too.

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    Yes, it’s theoretically possible, but it’s not likely: after serving as department chair for a few years, I feel reasonably confident that I would have heard about it if such numbers existed (and if they don’t exist at my university, they probably don’t exist in the other 8 UC campuses). This arbitrary allocation of percentages is pretty silly anyway in attempting to accurately quantify something that isn’t quantifiable, so I believe my institution’s approach is the more rational and honest one. Anyway, “many” is probably correct, so thanks for the edit.

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It is complicated. The amount a grant is charged when a professor "buys out" from a course generally factors in the professor's salary and benefits as well as the replacement teaching costs (salary, benefits, office etc).



The number of courses a professor can buy out of varies. Some departments will let you buy out of all courses, others will require you to teach 1 course a year and some will not let you buy out at all. The exact number can vary year to year depending on the teaching needs of the department, past buy outs, total grant/overhead income, and other factors.



You should not take a TT job expecting to buy out of all teaching and it is not unreasonable to ask during the hiring process what the buy "rules" are.






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  • Having just interviewed last year, I agree with StrongBad. Every school I interviewed with had different policies for buying out of teaching. Some were a percentage of your salary, some were flat rates. Few let you buy out of all of them, most had restrictions on how much you can buy out.

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Normally a professor is paid for eight to nine months each academic year for teaching several courses in the period.




No, professors are paid for doing many things, including teaching. See this question.




However, if a professor gets research grant, he can support himself by the grant in the summer months, or teach less courses.




That’s a misleading statement that’s only approximately correct. Many professors don’t receive summer salary but that doesn’t mean they can’t “support themselves in the summer months” - the base salary is usually adequate for supporting oneself. And it’s not always an option to teach fewer courses - that depends on the nature of the grant and on the department agreeing to a course buyout.




if a professor only teach the half of the normal load of courses, then he will receive half of his normal salary from the department and the rest is covered by the grant, right?




No, again your math shows that you are assuming the incorrect premise that professors are only paid to teach. Even if there is a well-defined percentage X such that X percent of the professor’s salary is given for teaching (there isn’t always such a number), the amount that will be charged to the grant for a course buyout may not directly correspond to a simple arithmetical calculation of the sort you suggested. As others have noted, every institution will have its own policies about such things.




If the grant is large enough, can he choose not teaching any course without loss of pay?




Professors never “choose” how much they teach. They get assigned teaching by their department, and are required to teach the number of courses that they are assigned. But given appropriate grant funding, they can request permission from the department for a course buyout, and if that permission is granted then they can teach less than the normal load. In some places this is a routine matter and effectively professors can assume that permission will always be granted; in others it may not be.



Also note that it’s not just the size of the grant that matters. The grant budget and policies of the funding body have to be compatible with using the money for a course buyout. That won’t always be the case even when the grant is “large enough”.






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    In the US, many universities have a breakdown of the position's time. For example, you may be hired to do 60% research, 20% teaching, 20% service. At some universities, this means the grants must cover the percentage of your salary that you are buying out of. At others, there is a flat buyout price (presumably the amount it costs to pay an instructor). Although, some also have requirements for a minimum number of courses you must teach per year (can't buy out).






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      most universities have a breakdown of the position’s time. Mine doesn’t. What is your basis for making such a claim?

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      @DanRomik Changed it to "many". I have heard it commonly brought up at conferences and nearly every place I interviewed. I didn't know my position had a time breakdown until recently (it wasn't in the offer or any of the initial paperwork), so it is possible that yours does too.

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      Yes, it’s theoretically possible, but it’s not likely: after serving as department chair for a few years, I feel reasonably confident that I would have heard about it if such numbers existed (and if they don’t exist at my university, they probably don’t exist in the other 8 UC campuses). This arbitrary allocation of percentages is pretty silly anyway in attempting to accurately quantify something that isn’t quantifiable, so I believe my institution’s approach is the more rational and honest one. Anyway, “many” is probably correct, so thanks for the edit.

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    In the US, many universities have a breakdown of the position's time. For example, you may be hired to do 60% research, 20% teaching, 20% service. At some universities, this means the grants must cover the percentage of your salary that you are buying out of. At others, there is a flat buyout price (presumably the amount it costs to pay an instructor). Although, some also have requirements for a minimum number of courses you must teach per year (can't buy out).






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      @DanRomik Changed it to "many". I have heard it commonly brought up at conferences and nearly every place I interviewed. I didn't know my position had a time breakdown until recently (it wasn't in the offer or any of the initial paperwork), so it is possible that yours does too.

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      Yes, it’s theoretically possible, but it’s not likely: after serving as department chair for a few years, I feel reasonably confident that I would have heard about it if such numbers existed (and if they don’t exist at my university, they probably don’t exist in the other 8 UC campuses). This arbitrary allocation of percentages is pretty silly anyway in attempting to accurately quantify something that isn’t quantifiable, so I believe my institution’s approach is the more rational and honest one. Anyway, “many” is probably correct, so thanks for the edit.

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    Nearly every school will have a different policy on buying out of teaching.



    In the US, many universities have a breakdown of the position's time. For example, you may be hired to do 60% research, 20% teaching, 20% service. At some universities, this means the grants must cover the percentage of your salary that you are buying out of. At others, there is a flat buyout price (presumably the amount it costs to pay an instructor). Although, some also have requirements for a minimum number of courses you must teach per year (can't buy out).







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      most universities have a breakdown of the position’s time. Mine doesn’t. What is your basis for making such a claim?

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      @DanRomik Changed it to "many". I have heard it commonly brought up at conferences and nearly every place I interviewed. I didn't know my position had a time breakdown until recently (it wasn't in the offer or any of the initial paperwork), so it is possible that yours does too.

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      Yes, it’s theoretically possible, but it’s not likely: after serving as department chair for a few years, I feel reasonably confident that I would have heard about it if such numbers existed (and if they don’t exist at my university, they probably don’t exist in the other 8 UC campuses). This arbitrary allocation of percentages is pretty silly anyway in attempting to accurately quantify something that isn’t quantifiable, so I believe my institution’s approach is the more rational and honest one. Anyway, “many” is probably correct, so thanks for the edit.

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      most universities have a breakdown of the position’s time. Mine doesn’t. What is your basis for making such a claim?

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      @DanRomik Changed it to "many". I have heard it commonly brought up at conferences and nearly every place I interviewed. I didn't know my position had a time breakdown until recently (it wasn't in the offer or any of the initial paperwork), so it is possible that yours does too.

      – Austin Henley
      5 hours ago






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      Yes, it’s theoretically possible, but it’s not likely: after serving as department chair for a few years, I feel reasonably confident that I would have heard about it if such numbers existed (and if they don’t exist at my university, they probably don’t exist in the other 8 UC campuses). This arbitrary allocation of percentages is pretty silly anyway in attempting to accurately quantify something that isn’t quantifiable, so I believe my institution’s approach is the more rational and honest one. Anyway, “many” is probably correct, so thanks for the edit.

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    @DanRomik Changed it to "many". I have heard it commonly brought up at conferences and nearly every place I interviewed. I didn't know my position had a time breakdown until recently (it wasn't in the offer or any of the initial paperwork), so it is possible that yours does too.

    – Austin Henley
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    @DanRomik Changed it to "many". I have heard it commonly brought up at conferences and nearly every place I interviewed. I didn't know my position had a time breakdown until recently (it wasn't in the offer or any of the initial paperwork), so it is possible that yours does too.

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    Yes, it’s theoretically possible, but it’s not likely: after serving as department chair for a few years, I feel reasonably confident that I would have heard about it if such numbers existed (and if they don’t exist at my university, they probably don’t exist in the other 8 UC campuses). This arbitrary allocation of percentages is pretty silly anyway in attempting to accurately quantify something that isn’t quantifiable, so I believe my institution’s approach is the more rational and honest one. Anyway, “many” is probably correct, so thanks for the edit.

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    Yes, it’s theoretically possible, but it’s not likely: after serving as department chair for a few years, I feel reasonably confident that I would have heard about it if such numbers existed (and if they don’t exist at my university, they probably don’t exist in the other 8 UC campuses). This arbitrary allocation of percentages is pretty silly anyway in attempting to accurately quantify something that isn’t quantifiable, so I believe my institution’s approach is the more rational and honest one. Anyway, “many” is probably correct, so thanks for the edit.

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    It is complicated. The amount a grant is charged when a professor "buys out" from a course generally factors in the professor's salary and benefits as well as the replacement teaching costs (salary, benefits, office etc).



    The number of courses a professor can buy out of varies. Some departments will let you buy out of all courses, others will require you to teach 1 course a year and some will not let you buy out at all. The exact number can vary year to year depending on the teaching needs of the department, past buy outs, total grant/overhead income, and other factors.



    You should not take a TT job expecting to buy out of all teaching and it is not unreasonable to ask during the hiring process what the buy "rules" are.






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    • Having just interviewed last year, I agree with StrongBad. Every school I interviewed with had different policies for buying out of teaching. Some were a percentage of your salary, some were flat rates. Few let you buy out of all of them, most had restrictions on how much you can buy out.

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      @MathWizard TT means tenure-track.

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    • Yes, tenure-track position requires some teaching and you must teach some courses in order to prove yourself

      – Math Wizard
      yesterday















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    It is complicated. The amount a grant is charged when a professor "buys out" from a course generally factors in the professor's salary and benefits as well as the replacement teaching costs (salary, benefits, office etc).



    The number of courses a professor can buy out of varies. Some departments will let you buy out of all courses, others will require you to teach 1 course a year and some will not let you buy out at all. The exact number can vary year to year depending on the teaching needs of the department, past buy outs, total grant/overhead income, and other factors.



    You should not take a TT job expecting to buy out of all teaching and it is not unreasonable to ask during the hiring process what the buy "rules" are.






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    • Having just interviewed last year, I agree with StrongBad. Every school I interviewed with had different policies for buying out of teaching. Some were a percentage of your salary, some were flat rates. Few let you buy out of all of them, most had restrictions on how much you can buy out.

      – Austin Henley
      yesterday







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      @MathWizard TT means tenure-track.

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      yesterday











    • Yes, tenure-track position requires some teaching and you must teach some courses in order to prove yourself

      – Math Wizard
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    It is complicated. The amount a grant is charged when a professor "buys out" from a course generally factors in the professor's salary and benefits as well as the replacement teaching costs (salary, benefits, office etc).



    The number of courses a professor can buy out of varies. Some departments will let you buy out of all courses, others will require you to teach 1 course a year and some will not let you buy out at all. The exact number can vary year to year depending on the teaching needs of the department, past buy outs, total grant/overhead income, and other factors.



    You should not take a TT job expecting to buy out of all teaching and it is not unreasonable to ask during the hiring process what the buy "rules" are.






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    It is complicated. The amount a grant is charged when a professor "buys out" from a course generally factors in the professor's salary and benefits as well as the replacement teaching costs (salary, benefits, office etc).



    The number of courses a professor can buy out of varies. Some departments will let you buy out of all courses, others will require you to teach 1 course a year and some will not let you buy out at all. The exact number can vary year to year depending on the teaching needs of the department, past buy outs, total grant/overhead income, and other factors.



    You should not take a TT job expecting to buy out of all teaching and it is not unreasonable to ask during the hiring process what the buy "rules" are.







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    • Having just interviewed last year, I agree with StrongBad. Every school I interviewed with had different policies for buying out of teaching. Some were a percentage of your salary, some were flat rates. Few let you buy out of all of them, most had restrictions on how much you can buy out.

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      @MathWizard TT means tenure-track.

      – Austin Henley
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    • Yes, tenure-track position requires some teaching and you must teach some courses in order to prove yourself

      – Math Wizard
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    • Having just interviewed last year, I agree with StrongBad. Every school I interviewed with had different policies for buying out of teaching. Some were a percentage of your salary, some were flat rates. Few let you buy out of all of them, most had restrictions on how much you can buy out.

      – Austin Henley
      yesterday







    • 2





      @MathWizard TT means tenure-track.

      – Austin Henley
      yesterday











    • Yes, tenure-track position requires some teaching and you must teach some courses in order to prove yourself

      – Math Wizard
      yesterday
















    Having just interviewed last year, I agree with StrongBad. Every school I interviewed with had different policies for buying out of teaching. Some were a percentage of your salary, some were flat rates. Few let you buy out of all of them, most had restrictions on how much you can buy out.

    – Austin Henley
    yesterday






    Having just interviewed last year, I agree with StrongBad. Every school I interviewed with had different policies for buying out of teaching. Some were a percentage of your salary, some were flat rates. Few let you buy out of all of them, most had restrictions on how much you can buy out.

    – Austin Henley
    yesterday





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    2





    @MathWizard TT means tenure-track.

    – Austin Henley
    yesterday





    @MathWizard TT means tenure-track.

    – Austin Henley
    yesterday













    Yes, tenure-track position requires some teaching and you must teach some courses in order to prove yourself

    – Math Wizard
    yesterday





    Yes, tenure-track position requires some teaching and you must teach some courses in order to prove yourself

    – Math Wizard
    yesterday











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    Normally a professor is paid for eight to nine months each academic year for teaching several courses in the period.




    No, professors are paid for doing many things, including teaching. See this question.




    However, if a professor gets research grant, he can support himself by the grant in the summer months, or teach less courses.




    That’s a misleading statement that’s only approximately correct. Many professors don’t receive summer salary but that doesn’t mean they can’t “support themselves in the summer months” - the base salary is usually adequate for supporting oneself. And it’s not always an option to teach fewer courses - that depends on the nature of the grant and on the department agreeing to a course buyout.




    if a professor only teach the half of the normal load of courses, then he will receive half of his normal salary from the department and the rest is covered by the grant, right?




    No, again your math shows that you are assuming the incorrect premise that professors are only paid to teach. Even if there is a well-defined percentage X such that X percent of the professor’s salary is given for teaching (there isn’t always such a number), the amount that will be charged to the grant for a course buyout may not directly correspond to a simple arithmetical calculation of the sort you suggested. As others have noted, every institution will have its own policies about such things.




    If the grant is large enough, can he choose not teaching any course without loss of pay?




    Professors never “choose” how much they teach. They get assigned teaching by their department, and are required to teach the number of courses that they are assigned. But given appropriate grant funding, they can request permission from the department for a course buyout, and if that permission is granted then they can teach less than the normal load. In some places this is a routine matter and effectively professors can assume that permission will always be granted; in others it may not be.



    Also note that it’s not just the size of the grant that matters. The grant budget and policies of the funding body have to be compatible with using the money for a course buyout. That won’t always be the case even when the grant is “large enough”.






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      Normally a professor is paid for eight to nine months each academic year for teaching several courses in the period.




      No, professors are paid for doing many things, including teaching. See this question.




      However, if a professor gets research grant, he can support himself by the grant in the summer months, or teach less courses.




      That’s a misleading statement that’s only approximately correct. Many professors don’t receive summer salary but that doesn’t mean they can’t “support themselves in the summer months” - the base salary is usually adequate for supporting oneself. And it’s not always an option to teach fewer courses - that depends on the nature of the grant and on the department agreeing to a course buyout.




      if a professor only teach the half of the normal load of courses, then he will receive half of his normal salary from the department and the rest is covered by the grant, right?




      No, again your math shows that you are assuming the incorrect premise that professors are only paid to teach. Even if there is a well-defined percentage X such that X percent of the professor’s salary is given for teaching (there isn’t always such a number), the amount that will be charged to the grant for a course buyout may not directly correspond to a simple arithmetical calculation of the sort you suggested. As others have noted, every institution will have its own policies about such things.




      If the grant is large enough, can he choose not teaching any course without loss of pay?




      Professors never “choose” how much they teach. They get assigned teaching by their department, and are required to teach the number of courses that they are assigned. But given appropriate grant funding, they can request permission from the department for a course buyout, and if that permission is granted then they can teach less than the normal load. In some places this is a routine matter and effectively professors can assume that permission will always be granted; in others it may not be.



      Also note that it’s not just the size of the grant that matters. The grant budget and policies of the funding body have to be compatible with using the money for a course buyout. That won’t always be the case even when the grant is “large enough”.






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        Normally a professor is paid for eight to nine months each academic year for teaching several courses in the period.




        No, professors are paid for doing many things, including teaching. See this question.




        However, if a professor gets research grant, he can support himself by the grant in the summer months, or teach less courses.




        That’s a misleading statement that’s only approximately correct. Many professors don’t receive summer salary but that doesn’t mean they can’t “support themselves in the summer months” - the base salary is usually adequate for supporting oneself. And it’s not always an option to teach fewer courses - that depends on the nature of the grant and on the department agreeing to a course buyout.




        if a professor only teach the half of the normal load of courses, then he will receive half of his normal salary from the department and the rest is covered by the grant, right?




        No, again your math shows that you are assuming the incorrect premise that professors are only paid to teach. Even if there is a well-defined percentage X such that X percent of the professor’s salary is given for teaching (there isn’t always such a number), the amount that will be charged to the grant for a course buyout may not directly correspond to a simple arithmetical calculation of the sort you suggested. As others have noted, every institution will have its own policies about such things.




        If the grant is large enough, can he choose not teaching any course without loss of pay?




        Professors never “choose” how much they teach. They get assigned teaching by their department, and are required to teach the number of courses that they are assigned. But given appropriate grant funding, they can request permission from the department for a course buyout, and if that permission is granted then they can teach less than the normal load. In some places this is a routine matter and effectively professors can assume that permission will always be granted; in others it may not be.



        Also note that it’s not just the size of the grant that matters. The grant budget and policies of the funding body have to be compatible with using the money for a course buyout. That won’t always be the case even when the grant is “large enough”.






        share|improve this answer
















        Normally a professor is paid for eight to nine months each academic year for teaching several courses in the period.




        No, professors are paid for doing many things, including teaching. See this question.




        However, if a professor gets research grant, he can support himself by the grant in the summer months, or teach less courses.




        That’s a misleading statement that’s only approximately correct. Many professors don’t receive summer salary but that doesn’t mean they can’t “support themselves in the summer months” - the base salary is usually adequate for supporting oneself. And it’s not always an option to teach fewer courses - that depends on the nature of the grant and on the department agreeing to a course buyout.




        if a professor only teach the half of the normal load of courses, then he will receive half of his normal salary from the department and the rest is covered by the grant, right?




        No, again your math shows that you are assuming the incorrect premise that professors are only paid to teach. Even if there is a well-defined percentage X such that X percent of the professor’s salary is given for teaching (there isn’t always such a number), the amount that will be charged to the grant for a course buyout may not directly correspond to a simple arithmetical calculation of the sort you suggested. As others have noted, every institution will have its own policies about such things.




        If the grant is large enough, can he choose not teaching any course without loss of pay?




        Professors never “choose” how much they teach. They get assigned teaching by their department, and are required to teach the number of courses that they are assigned. But given appropriate grant funding, they can request permission from the department for a course buyout, and if that permission is granted then they can teach less than the normal load. In some places this is a routine matter and effectively professors can assume that permission will always be granted; in others it may not be.



        Also note that it’s not just the size of the grant that matters. The grant budget and policies of the funding body have to be compatible with using the money for a course buyout. That won’t always be the case even when the grant is “large enough”.







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