For instance, the English Department has stopped allowing junior Faculty to serve as director of undergraduate studies, for fear that the job necessitated too much arm-twisting of senior Faculty, Sollors says.
"[Junior Faculty] are protected from too time consuming [tasks] or those which build up structural animosity," says Sollors.
On the other hand, some Faculty members, like women and minority professors, are asked to serve more often than their colleagues.
"Every committee feels it has to have its representation of women," Thompson says.
The desire to hear from all voices puts additional pressure on the relatively few available women and minority scholars.
"Women and under-represented minorities will (until the numbers have risen) always be asked to do rather more," Knowles wrote in an e-mail message. "Role models always are in that position."
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