At the start of her first year as an assistant professor, accepted overwhelming Wilkerson had her workload as part of the territory. Her paycheck was and than expected, Agua and the other two new faculty members seemed to be suffering under the same But now, in her second semester, Wilkerson was beginning to feel that things weren't right. The stream of students knocking on her door persisted, but she noticed that Agua was spending less time talking and more time at his word processor than he had during the first semester. When asked, Agua told her he had reduced his course load because of his extra work on the department's hiring and library committees. He seemed surprised when Wilkerson admitted that she didn't know there was such a thing as course reduction.