[EAS] Two from the ASEE

[Peter J. Kindlmann]

from
ASEE ACTION ALERT
July/August 2006

STUDY SHOWS SCIENTISTS SPEND 42% OF TIME ON ADMIN WORK.  An article 
in the July 7th issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education looked at 
a new study by the Federal Demonstration Partnership, titled the 
Faculty Burden Survey, which found that scientists spend 42 percent 
of their research time either filling out forms or in meetings.  The 
study, which will be released in late August, has led to a renewed 
effort to have the federal government amend its grant-making system 
to allow more money to be spent on administrative help.  Among the 
findings in the study was that certain "administrative burdens were 
specific to faculty subgroups - for example.  Filing patent 
applications for engineering professors."

URI COLLOQUIUM ON INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION.  The 
University of Rhode Island International Engineering Program 
announces the Ninth Annual Colloquium on International Engineering 
Education, which will take place in Newport, Rhode Island, November 
2-5, 2006.  The colloquium is designed for engineering and language 
educators, international program administrators, deans, provosts, 
presidents, corporate leaders, as well as public sector 
representatives.  It provides an interdisciplinary forum for 
discussing and sharing ideas and practices pertaining to the 
education of engineers for today's global workplace. For more 
information, go to:
http://www.uri.edu/iep/colloquia/2006/  .