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That sounds more like a standard university workload. We don't have a research component. A lot of us do research in our own time, and we have a two-month "professional development" period as part of our year of service, but publication is not a requirement of our employment - the "pd" can include prepping a new course, giving workshops to other faculty, working on college wide business etc, as well as or instead of personal research, in fact we're encouraged to diversify. So the teaching load isn't as bad on its own. "Up the road" at UVic, the instructors usually teach 2 courses in one term and maybe 3 in another, but they have to publish...