tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221426032019820624.post719174380117575830..comments2024-01-22T00:34:27.669-08:00Comments on Bishops on the Road : End of Year Report for 2014Phil Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04921472858416591869noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221426032019820624.post-27914461863535798512015-03-29T04:11:41.355-07:002015-03-29T04:11:41.355-07:00One of the things that is interesting to me about ...One of the things that is interesting to me about annual performance reports is that some of the most valuable and time consuming work we do doesn't really count. When you have the good fortune to spend many hours listening to students' (and colleagues') problems, when you spend countless hours writing good reference letters, when you use hard to grade essay questions for an exam instead of multiple-guess, none of this shows up. <br /><br />In my brief tenure (ha, ha) as a professor, one of the most surprising aspects has been how much work we do that is off the record. And I'm sure you do a ton--from picking up garbage to carefully editing a friends article and others. <br /><br />One of the other shocking aspects to me is the wide gap between how little some professors do just to keep from getting hassled (I call this Bishop's Law of Minimums) and the enormous amount of work others do.<br /><br />If it makes you feel any better, I sure appreciated all you did for me and I was never even of your students. :-)weshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16319616965948120689noreply@blogger.com