The Terrapin Time Initiative: A Workshop to Enhance Alignment between Faculty Work Priorities and Time-Use

Faculty members experience a gap between how they would prefer to spend their work time and how they actually do so. In this article we report results from a four-week workshop called “The Terrapin Time Initiative.” It was guided by theories of behavioral economics and behavioral design, which sugge...

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Published inInnovative higher education Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 165 - 179
Main Authors Culpepper, Dawn, Kilmer, Sarah, O’Meara, Kerry Ann, Misra, Joya, Jaeger, Audrey J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.04.2020
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
College Faculty
Decision Making
Education
Faculty Workload
Higher Education
Needs Assessment
Time
Time Management
University faculty
Workshops
Time management
Behavioral economics
Faculty careers
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Summary:Faculty members experience a gap between how they would prefer to spend their work time and how they actually do so. In this article we report results from a four-week workshop called “The Terrapin Time Initiative.” It was guided by theories of behavioral economics and behavioral design, which suggest that small changes to the context, or “choice architecture,” in which individuals make choices can enhance decision-making. Results indicate that the workshop was effective in changing the “choice architecture” in which faculty made decisions about their time-use, thereby helping them to develop new strategies for managing their time.
ISSN:0742-5627
1573-1758
DOI:10.1007/s10755-019-09490-w