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Most people, when thinking about what faculty do, picture a professor in a classroom lecturing to students, or perhaps someone in a lab coat conducting an experiment. Teaching and research are widely recognized as the basic tasks of faculty members. Less well known are the many responsibilities that accompany these basic functions. According to the 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty, published by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, full-time faculty members work about fifty-five hours a week, and part-time faculty work nearly forty. That figure includes paid and unpaid hours completed on and off campus. Here are some of the duties, aside from teaching and research, that you might find a professor doing if you followed him or her during the course of a day.