associate professors. In other cases, 

 the amount of teaching was practi- 

 cally identical, regardless of rank. 

 Often there were marked differences 

 between one department and another 

 in the same university. For instance, 

 the chemistry department in one in- 

 stitution reported the regular teach- 

 ing load in hours per week as: full 

 professors, 3; associate professors, 8; 



assistant professors, 10; instructors, 

 12. This is an unusual amount of var- 

 iation with rank. The biologv depart- 

 ment in the same institution reported 

 a uniform figure for all academic 

 ranks. In this particular institution 

 the chemistry department appears to 

 have been much more extensively 

 endowed than the other science de- 

 partments. 



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