May 9, 2003
Writes of Passage
We asked several professors who are retiring this year to estimate the number of student papers they have graded -- the paper trail they have left after decades of teaching. They multiplied the number of years they have taught by their average number of students each year and the average workload for each student (papers and essay exams). Here are the results (the average is 22,860):
James R. Steidtmann, geology, University of Wyoming: 1,500 papers in 25 years. "It's probably low
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