Allocate EA Researchers from Teaching Activities to Research
Problem: Professors spend a lot of their time teaching instead of researching. Many don’t know that many universities offer “teaching buy-outs”, where if you pay a certain amount of money, you don’t have to teach. Many also don’t know that a lot of EA funding would be interested in paying that.
Solution: Make a fund that’s explicitly for this, to make it so more EAs know. This is the 80⁄20 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 don’t know that many universities offer “teaching buy-outs”, where if you pay a certain amount of money, you don’t have to teach. Many also don’t know that a lot of EA funding would be interested in paying that.
Solution: Make a fund that’s explicitly for this, to make it so more EAs know. This is the 80⁄20 of promoting the idea. Alternatively, funders can just advertise this offering in other ways.