Dive Brief:
- College and university faculty spend more time on teaching than on research, service, and advising, according to a national survey.
- On average, full-time faculty spent nine hours a week on class preparation, nearly 10 hours teaching, and 17 hours on other instructional work, including grading and meeting with students outside of class.
- Roughly 40% of first-year college and university students, and about a third of seniors, said that social media was a substantial distraction from coursework, according to an associated survey.
Dive Insight:
The findings come from the National Survey of Student Engagement, which included more than 355,000 first-year and senior college and university students, as well as companion surveys, including a faculty poll. The student survey found that, for first-year students, the number of times they met with an academic advisor correlated positively with perceptions of a supportive campus environment. For the first-yeast students, about one out of three met rarely met with an advisor. The groups of students who were more likely to meet rarely with advisors were commuting, non-traditional-aged, and part-time students.