Comments on: How Do the Best Professors Work?

By: Divide and conquer… your academic workweek « Academic Lifehacker

Divide and conquer… your academic workweek « Academic Lifehacker — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:13:00 +0000

[...] and conquer… your academic workweek I was recently re-inspired by this post over at Academic Productivity. I had tagged it ages ago, but never gave serious consideration to [...]

By: Invisalign

Invisalign — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:54:12 +0000

With a bachelors, most teachers make between 30-50K a year starting salary. Professors start from 40-60K. If you want to know exact numbers, simply go to any school district or public university website and locate the “teacher salary scale”. By law, any public school or institution must publicly post salaries paid to its employees. You might have to search around their human resources site, but I assure you it’s there.

By: Antique Wood Carvings

Antique Wood Carvings — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:35:47 +0000

this is a great read.
although nothing is going to work out perfect,
the idea and concept of putting certain things to be done on certain days can definitely help with your focus.

you can concentrate on one thing that day,
not having to juggle your thoughts.

By: Shemsedin Thaqi

Shemsedin Thaqi — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:45:36 +0000

it would be better to have an assisten and then you really get the big idea

By: Study Hacks » Blog Archive » How to Use an Administrative Day to Significantly Increase Your Weekly Productivity

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:10:13 +0000

[...] couple weeks back, I wrote a post for Academic Productivity about how I structure my work week as a graduate student. I want to [...]

By: mom

mom — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:26:25 +0000

Great in theory, except that administrative nonsense doesn’t behave sometimes — e.g., you call someone, they aren’t there, your appointment for X can’t be made on that day, etc.

And, that sometimes you can’t do your “normal work” for 10 hours on end — writers burn out, sore eyes, etc.

I am a young prof at an R1 and I save 3-5pm, my least productive time of the day, for administrivia, coffee mtgs, etc. I’m on leave so now I do it 5x a week, but when teaching I do it 3x a week, and have office hours on the other days during the same slot.

Just an alternative idea.

By: Bunch your obligations-earn yourself a “Big Idea Day” « Getting Things Done in Academia

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:57:39 +0000

[...] worth of emails to return, forms to fill out, and papers to grade. This is the argument made by Cal Newport in a nifty discussion of “best practices” by professors and graduate [...]

By: Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Weekend Links: Stop Working on Fridays, Meet Better People, and Become Perplexed by Cal's Prolificness

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:15:28 +0000

[...] How Do the Best Professors Work? | Academic Productivity A guest post I wrote for Academic Productivity about how I schedule my work week as a graduate student (hint: it’s inspired by the work habits of top professors). [...]

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:52:58 +0000

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By: Cal

Cal — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:23:06 +0000

Carol,

Have you actually tried the virtual assistant approach in an academic environment? If so, I would love to hear about it!

- Cal