Allocate EA Researchers from Teaching Activities to Research
Problem: Professors spend a lot of their time teaching instead of researching. Many donāt know that many universities offer āteaching buy-outsā, where if you pay a certain amount of money, you donāt have to teach. Many also donāt know that a lot of EA funding would be interested in paying that.
Solution: Make a fund thatās explicitly for this, to make it so more EAs know. This is the 80ā20 of promoting the idea. Alternatively, funders can just advertise this offering in other ways.
Teaching buy-out fund
Allocate EA Researchers from Teaching Activities to Research
Problem: Professors spend a lot of their time teaching instead of researching. Many donāt know that many universities offer āteaching buy-outsā, where if you pay a certain amount of money, you donāt have to teach. Many also donāt know that a lot of EA funding would be interested in paying that.
Solution: Make a fund thatās explicitly for this, to make it so more EAs know. This is the 80ā20 of promoting the idea. Alternatively, funders can just advertise this offering in other ways.