This seems like a really good idea out of Duke University for compensating faculty who take on extra responsibilities, like being department chair:
A faculty committee proposed a system — recently adopted by the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, which has 600 faculty members — to create a menu of rewards. A reduced teaching load would still be an option. But a professor might also choose extra money for a laboratory, a travel fund to visit a far-off archive without having to spend time applying for a grant, or just extra cash.
“In using a reduced teaching load as your only currency to recognize service, you take faculty away from doing what they came to universities to do,” said George McLendon, dean of arts and sciences at Duke. “The faculty certainly didn’t come here to be director of graduate studies. They came to do teaching and scholarship.”
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