New Courses Require “Training”

Tenure-track people in my department: We need to overhaul the major. Let’s add new survey courses.

Also tenure-track people in my department: Who will teach these new surveys? We are too busy.

Lecturers with decades of teaching, research, and course design experience plus oodles of graduate degrees and extremely nimble, adaptable brains: [raise hands]

Tenure-track people: They don’t have any expertise; we need to train them. But we’re busy.