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We Report, You Decide (Smart Idea?) #768741

FNC Evening News for Saturday, Feb 28, 2004
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(Studio: Jane Skinner) Report introduced.

(Chicago: Steve Brown) The controversy surrounding a planned study by the Illinois state university system to measure the productivity of the state’s professors examined; details given about the proposed study which is designed to see what taxpayers and students are receiving from funding that pays professors’ salaries. [University of Illinois at Chicago professor Susan LIEBMAN†- says she is doing almost more work than she can do.] [Illinois Board of Higher Education’s James KAPLAN†- says there have been no guidelines set for what a productive teacher is.] [University of Illinois at Chicago Dean Stanley FISH†- says most professors he knows work 65-80 hours a week.]

Reporter(s):
Skinner, Jane;
Brown, Steve
Duration:
00:01:50

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