This document discusses balancing the roles of research, teaching, and academic service for professors. It notes that balancing these priorities is like riding a bicycle, with constant movement needed to maintain stability. The document explores how professors spend their time on these different roles, with research often getting less attention due to its more solitary nature. It advocates for integrating research and teaching activities to find fulfillment. While balance is difficult to achieve, maintaining momentum by shifting priorities at a slower pace allows professors to continue progressing in their work.

1. Balancing Priorities in the Academic Workplace:
Research, Teaching, and Academic Service Roles
Areej Al-Wabil, PhD
November 13, 2012

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In academia..

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Work-Life Balance?

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Balance-Stability vs Priorities-Momentum
“It’s not like a see-saw,.. with research on one end and teaching on the
other; it’s more like a bicycle that I’m riding.
In other words, the “thing” being balanced is me, not some object outside
of me. And it’s movement that keeps me upright.” ~Libby Gruner

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How do Professors spend their time?

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Research, Teaching, Service
Research

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Research..
Research gets the shortest shrift,
at least in my experience,
because it makes the quietest
demands

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Research
Gaze Plots
Heat map

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Research
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=961

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Research – Management Framework

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Research Dissemination

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Research, Teaching, Service
Teaching

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Teaching
Shape my courses around my
research activities and interests
Reshape my research program
to integrate it with my teaching

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Research, Teaching, Service
Academic Service

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Academic Service

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Administrative roles

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Do what you love; love what you do
My work is an expression of my creative process; work-life balance is
sought by having them both integrated into one fulfilling journey.

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With shifting priorities,
Are we seeking balance..
Balance is an elusive concept in so many ways..

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..or momentum?
momentum..
Shifting priorities.. moving at a slower pace, but moving

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Thank You!
Balancing Priorities in the Academic Workplace
Web - http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/areejalwabil RG - http://ksu.skerg.org
November 13, 2012