Someone should've mentioned this at the faculty meeting

I would have, of course, but for my natural shyness. I understand that we may be forced to extend the semester by a week and add an hour of instruction for each course. So let's do the math: we teach 2 14-week semesters per year, 2.5 hours per week per class, 5 classes. That's 350 hours of instruction per year. If we go to 15 week semesters, 3.5 hours per class, that's 525 hours per year, a 50 percent increase. I assume the powers that be, in figuring out how we're going to make this transition, have factored in the extra compensation that faculty are going to want in exchange for the heavier workload. Here's a proposal: as we transition to the heavier workload, let's transition to a 2-2 teaching load. That reduces hours of instruction to 420, leaving a 20 percent increase in hours; you can compensate me for that in cash, thank you very much. Or, I suppose I could just do a 20% (or 50%) crappier job in each class.