For 11 weeks, she said, she turned into a zombie because of her heavy class load.
Mike Sewak, who coaches Tech's centers and guards, shook his head when asked about Bedford's class load.
In interviews, former teachers at Ohio Virtual Academy and Colorado Virtual Academy also complained of bigger class loads, with elementary teachers who once handled 40 to 50 pupils now supervising 75.
Nyjhia, who is carrying a class load of 12 credits and working evenings at the jewelry store, says she now wants to pursue a degree in international business.
Having money to not just afford food, but a high-end nutritious diet probably helps, as does freedom from a full-time class load and access to the kinds of top-tier facilities and training staff offered by NBA franchises.
Mr. Taylor has also used phased-in retirements, which gradually lighten an older professor's class load and salary over two or more years, a voluntary easing into retirement that can lighten the college's payroll.
Confronted with bigger class loads, less time for research, fewer administrative aides, less money for graduate assistants and salary freezes, tenured professors are vowing to leave -- and occasionally making good on their threats.
She is a tenured professor in the Fine Arts Department at the Rutgers Camden campus, has a doctorate in musicology, a full class load and scholarly papers and books to her credit.
Aerospace engineering is considered one of the toughest majors at Tech, and his class load this semester includes fixed wing senior design, jet and rocket propulsion, high speed aerodynamics and flight dynamics.
Complaints about low pay and high class loads -- with some high school teachers managing more than 250 students -- have prompted a unionization battle at Agora, which has offices in Wayne, Pa.
