title: Research funding expectations as a function of faculty teaching/administrative workload.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Persistent faculty shortages at US pharmacy schools make faculty recruitment and retention a perennial priority. The literature indicates that a key retention issue is whether the faculty member's scholarship is compromised because of a heavy teaching or service workload.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Assess US pharmacy faculty perceptions concerning their views of appropriate expectations of research grant support given their teaching/administrative workloads.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data and opinions were collected using a multiple-choice, cross-sectional survey instrument (SurveyMonkey®; Menlo Park, CA), e-mailed to 1047 faculty members, randomly selected from all Accreditation Council of Pharmacy Education (ACPE)-accredited US pharmacy schools. Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS® (Chicago, IL) for Windows, Version 17.0.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the researcher respondents, a majority felt that the amount of teaching expected was too much to be a competitive researcher. Teaching commitment was found more likely to increase than decrease after achieving tenure. Reported new faculty start-up funding was well below that typically found at nonpharmacy research schools.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This information is anticipated to help pharmacy faculty members gauge their workload and productivity relative to a national peer group, and to help pharmacy schools improve in faculty recruitment and retention. The survey findings may assist pharmacy schools in clarifying reasonable teaching and funding expectations for pre- and post-tenure faculty, which in turn may help attract more pharmaceutical scientists to academic pharmacy positions.
authors.affiliation: Mylan School of Pharmacy, Duquesne University, Mellon Hall, Room 411, 600 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15282, USA. surratt@duq.edu
authors.forename: Christopher K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Surratt
authors.forename: Khalid M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Kamal
authors.forename: Peter L D
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Wildfong
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004512:Education, Pharmacy; D005178:Faculty; D006801:Humans; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D012580:Schools, Pharmacy; D013663:Teaching; D016526:Workload