Timeline for Why do academics work only nine months of the year?
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| Sep 7, 2014 at 9:22 | comment | added | Skyler | In my experience any serious researcher in the US is still working summers, and if anything that is their busiest time. My lab converted the lunch table into a workstation for summer interns and we were nearly ready to start doubling down on desks. The lab was at its busiest. | |
| Sep 5, 2014 at 14:39 | comment | added | Oswald Veblen | Please don't misinterpret my answer as saying that faculty in the U.S. can simply take 3 months off - that's far from true. In particular, active researchers are very unlikely to stop working on their research over the summer. It's just that the legal framework of employment is set up with a 9 month contract. | |
| Sep 5, 2014 at 14:22 | history | answered | earthling | CC BY-SA 3.0 |