Tip #1: Walk fast when on cam­pus and explain to col­leagues that you can­not go out to lunch because you are busy respond­ing to law review edi­tors’ com­ments on your manuscript.

Tip #2: Remind your col­leagues how many stu­dents you teach, how many exams you have to grade, how fright­fully many hours it will take you to grade them, and how grad­ing exams really cuts down the time you can be avail­able for schol­ar­ship, ser­vice activ­i­ties, friends or family.

Tip #3: Send an e-mail inform­ing your dean or col­leagues that you have been invited to speak at the local Rotary Club or the neigh­bor­ing town’s PTA meeting.

Tip #4: Bring mas­sive amounts of work to talks by out­siders and stu­dent events, and make sure to vis­i­bly mark on doc­u­ments — as if edit­ing your own paper or mak­ing com­ments on stu­dent work — in full sight of every­one else in the room.

Tip #5: Get ticked off and behave badly at fac­ulty meetings.

Tip #6: Do not timely answer e-mails from any­one who may be rely­ing on you to show up to an event, help review appli­ca­tions or sched­ule a meet­ing, then get huffy when the meet­ing takes place before you respond to the e-mail.

[via The Chron­i­cle ]

6th December, 2009