| What teaching-related expenses, if any, have you been paying yourself (without being reimbursed)? |
| # | Response Date | Comment |
| 1. | Wed, 10/10/07 7:03 PM | Some props I use in my classroom. |
| 2. | Wed, 10/10/07 7:05 PM | None thanks to grants |
| 3. | Wed, 10/10/07 7:08 PM | Desk copies from publishers who do not give out free copies (even if you are using their text), computer software & supplies (ink), photocopying, etc. |
| 4. | Wed, 10/10/07 7:10 PM | Lots, including toner for office printer, pens, notepads. |
| 5. | Wed, 10/10/07 7:12 PM | Renting movies to show my class. |
| 6. | Wed, 10/10/07 7:14 PM | purchase of office supplies used by myself and/or dept |
| 7. | Wed, 10/10/07 7:25 PM | Buying textbooks and other instructional resouces |
| 8. | Wed, 10/10/07 7:30 PM | Mileage, printer ink, paper. |
| 9. | Wed, 10/10/07 7:30 PM | health care
supplies
special clothing to deal with lack of safe facilities |
| 10. | Wed, 10/10/07 7:33 PM | Travel to some professional meetings (approx. $2000 per year). |
| 11. | Wed, 10/10/07 7:37 PM | conferences and meeting in my area of teaching and expertise that I want to go to but are not necessarily approved |
| 12. | Wed, 10/10/07 7:40 PM | Lots of supplies (binders, file folders, journals) |
| 13. | Wed, 10/10/07 7:46 PM | supplies here and there |
| 14. | Wed, 10/10/07 7:57 PM | I "split" cost of uniforms for program students, mileage for recruiting students, paper/printer toner for work I do at home and oth!
er small stuff. |
| 15. | Wed, 10/10/07 8:00 PM | where do i start? i have spent thousands: yoga mats, blankets, dvd's, videos, books, blocks, straps, resistance bands, bandaids and emergency packs, music, music, music. that is another reason why i offered the suggestion of a small $2-5 materials fee early in this survey. |
| 16. | Wed, 10/10/07 8:07 PM | Mostly books and computer printing. |
| 17. | Wed, 10/10/07 8:16 PM | Office Supplies, office furniture and carpet |
| 18. | Wed, 10/10/07 8:21 PM | computer-related: programs, maintenence, upgrades |
| 19. | Wed, 10/10/07 8:40 PM | Office and area clean!
ing supplies. Our custodians don't clean, wash, dust, vacuum, or anyt
hing else on their job description. |
| 20. | Wed, 10/10/07 8:53 PM | DVDs, videos. The purchasing process for these items is archaic and unrealistic. |
| 21. | Wed, 10/10/07 8:57 PM | Books, cds, dvds, paper for my printer, printer ink. |
| 22. | Wed, 10/10/07 9:12 PM | I buy white board markers (we run out on campus all the time and the ones in the classroom are destroyed) and post-it notes presentation paper ($30 for 30 sheets) once a semester. I also print out my own powerpoint presentations and notes so there is paper and printer ink. |
| 23. | Wed, 10/10/07 9:15 PM | materials, videos |
| 24. | Wed, 10/10/07 9:22 PM | I pay for extra scantrons and #2 pencils.
| 25. | Wed, 10/10/07 9:31 PM | painting and drawing supplies for demonstrations; odd materials for student use. |
| 26. | Wed, 10/10/07 9:40 PM | Books I use as outside resources, current journals that give up to date information on industry practices. |
| 27. | Wed, 10/10/07 9:46 PM | Not much, but I spend a ton of time writing activities for the classroom which works up to be countless hours into the evening that I'm working. I spend about $200/year on miscellaneous supplies to make activities more hands-on. |
| 28. | Wed, 10/10/07 9:47 PM | Transparancy sheets for lectures
White Board Pens
Paper
Computer software
DVDs used for instruction
Interactive games
Reference books
Phone calls (students/faculty/staff) on cell phone
Speakers for laptop computer
Printer
Printer cartridges
Stop watches
Legal pads |
| 29. | Wed, 10/10/07 9:51 PM | printer ink cartridge occassionally
outside speakers in the classroom |
| 30. | Wed, 10/10/07 9:57 PM | Chalk & Magic Markers. Some copying. Chocolate. |
| 31. | Wed, 10/10/07 10:15 PM | Creating new courses and course materials.
Office hours for students once limit is reached.
Purchasing equipment: laptops, laser pointers, etc. |
| 32. | Wed, 10/10/07 10:17 PM | Just occasional little items...if we're really short, some of us have been contributing (e.g. evaluation stipends) to a departmental CCC Foundation account, so we would go to that if a substantial need arose that our supplies budget couldn't cover. |
| 33. | Wed, 10/10/07 10:28 PM | last minute copies |
| 34. | Wed, 10/10/07 10:34 PM | Supplies - copies, envelopes (9x12); cooy,paper,
computer cartrdiges, etc |
| 35. | Wed, 10/10/07 11:01 PM | Travel to supervise students in their lab and co-op work experience placements.
Professional conferences |
| 36. | Wed, 10/10/07 11:04 PM | Gas/mileage for some travel
Some supplies
Food for students and for staff meetings
***Time (and time IS money) to do things that should be done by a classified staff member, which we don't have |
| 37. | Wed, 10/10/07 11:11 PM | Going to conferences |
| 38. | Wed, 10/10/07 11:19 PM | I have some prizes that I give away in order to "challenge" my student to learn chemical nomenlclature and to help each other learn. I also have bought some chemicals for a demo. All in all, it has been about $40 |
| 39. | Wed, 10/10/07 11:44 PM | • Conferences and workshops would be first, followed by books, periodicals. |
| 40. | Thu, 10/11/07 12:11 AM | dry-erase markers
paper
home office supplies related to teaching
certain laboratory supplies
laptop computer primarily used for teaching
long distance phone charges |
| 41. | Thu, 10/11/07 12:13 AM | milage between the two campuses. It is an hour drive to Brentwood.
Copies, some other materials. |
| 42. | Thu, 10/11/07 12:28 AM | personal laptop computer, flashcards, transparencies |
| 43. | Thu, 10/11/07 12:45 AM | Printer cartridges |
| 44. | Thu, 10/11/07 1:50 AM | I stopped going to conferences when the money evaporated. |
| 45. | Thu, 10/11/07 3:46 AM | pens, paper, folders |
| 46. | Thu, 10/11/07 4:59 AM | All supplies: paper, pens, etc. |
| 47. | Thu, 10/11/07 5:23 AM | Power - point equipment and flash-drives USB |
| 48. | Thu, 10/11/07 !
7:05 AM | travel, committee work, staff development. |
| 49. | Thu, 10/11/07 2:14 PM | viedos and dvds |
| 50. | Thu, 10/11/07 4:09 PM | Supplies (e.g. whiteboard pens). $25/semester. |
| 51. | Thu, 10/11/07 4:34 PM | Calculator, laptop, software, mileage |
| 52. | Thu, 10/11/07 5:54 PM | Books, tools, models |
| 53. | Thu, 10/11/07 6:03 PM | Travel to field trips is seldom reimbursed. Also, time spent building materials needed in science labs is never reimbursed. |
| 54. | Thu, 10/11/07 6:26 PM | Training to develop!
online courses. |
| 55. | Thu, 10/11/07 6:59 PM | Music materials and workshops for teaching |
| 56. | Thu, 10/11/07 8:44 PM | Print costs at home. |
| 57. | Thu, 10/11/07 9:22 PM | Copying, mileage, classroom supplies. |
| 58. | Fri, 10/12/07 2:50 AM | copying, markers (SRVC markers do not write clearly.) |
| 59. | Fri, 10/12/07 4:07 AM | $140.00 for microsoft powerpoint |
| 60. | Fri, 10/12/07 4:55 AM | I pay for at least one guest speaker each semester out of my own pocket at $100 per speaker. The speaker I use most frequently normally receives $600 a session, but accepts my $100. He does not know I!
am paying out of my own pocket. I find it too embarrassing to tell him and cannot afford to pay him more. |
| 61. | Fri, 10/12/07 6:59 PM | DVDs, transparencies, my DVC office printer, milage going to and from SRV when I have taught classes there, ink print cartridges, copy charges, office and some class room supplies, I pay all costs relevant to maintaining my memebership in professional associations and my registration an RD. And I pay for business cards. |
| 62. | Fri, 10/12/07 7:56 PM | stationary items, some tools. nothing expensive except for a few tools that came up missing. |
| 63. | Fri, 10/12/07 8:11 PM | small office type matrials |
| 64. | Fri, 10/12/07 9:45 PM | ba!
sic supplies such as pens for the whiteboards |
| 65. | Sun, 10/14/07 6:03 AM | paper for printing, ink cartridges, usb flash drives, |
| 66. | Mon, 10/15/07 3:28 AM | gas, and I put a lot of time into class preparation, student grading, etc. that I don't feel I get paid for. |
| 67. | Mon, 10/15/07 4:46 AM | pens, transparencies, gas |
| 68. | Mon, 10/15/07 7:46 AM | tons to many to name here |
| 69. | Mon, 10/15/07 1:39 PM | I spend a lot of my own money on printer ink and paper. I use my laptop constantly and 99% of that is teaching-related. |
| 70. | Mon, 10/15/07 7:14 PM | Mostly time--blood, sweat,!
and tears. |
| 71. | Mon, 10/15/07 11:09 PM | I will need to buy paper clips and filing folders. |
| 72. | Mon, 10/15/07 11:10 PM | Paper, printer toner, books, videos, student treats and awards, continuing education costs, etc. Each year I spend thousands of dollars on education-related costs out of my own pocket. |
| 73. | Mon, 10/15/07 11:13 PM | my prep time |
| 74. | Mon, 10/15/07 11:22 PM | Scantrons, general office supplies. |
| 75. | Mon, 10/15/07 11:34 PM | Printing suppies at home. Camera for photos for website- of models, slides, field trips, etc. |
| 76.!
| Mon, 10/15/07 11:45 PM | one day co
nferences, textbooks, photocpying, materials, extra time on line with my students |
| 77. | Mon, 10/15/07 11:58 PM | Office supplies, travel, student extras. |
| 78. | Tue, 10/16/07 12:51 AM | Books, demo materials, computer, etc. |
| 79. | Tue, 10/16/07 12:54 AM | Copying. The occasional textbook. Marking pens. Colored paper and other office supplies. |
| 80. | Tue, 10/16/07 1:43 AM | home computer |
| 81. | Tue, 10/16/07 1:58 AM | videos, dvds |
| 82. | Tue, 10/16/07 1:58 AM | photocopying
marketing
consumables
video purchase
food for students
transportation supervising fieldwork |
| 83. | Tue, 10/16/07 3:32 AM | I drive my own truck to get class supplies to avoid shipping fees, I pay my own way to multiple conferences with students. |
| 84. | Tue, 10/16/07 4:18 AM | photocopying, because I often have last-minute articles, etc. to share with my classes, and there's not an easily accessible copier at LMC to do it myself anymore-- I understand it's a hassle to maintain, but couldn't they put a self-serve copier just outside the regular copy center in the admin area at LMC? Sometimes you need images, enlargments, editing, etc., and a self-service machine could be good for that. |
| 85. | Tue, 10/16/07 5:04 AM | Supplies, attending conferences, participating in professional organizations (member!
ships, attendance at board meetings), travel, phone calls. |
| 86. | Tue, 10/16/07 7:35 AM | conference fees, membership fees |
| 87. | Tue, 10/16/07 7:53 AM | Travel to association meetings |
| 88. | Tue, 10/16/07 8:43 AM | Forget that...how many millions of hours of WORK have I donated the past two summers and every day above and beyond my required workload....with no source of help or support or money...because library's do not earn FTE even though we support students every day to be successful in their courses! |
| 89. | Tue, 10/16/07 4:56 PM | printing at home |
| 90. | Tue, 10/16/07 5:20 PM | Copies of w!
orksheets, handouts that I need ASAP-so don't have time to wait for th
e Copy Shop to do for me. |
| 91. | Tue, 10/16/07 5:33 PM | some art supplies for demos...some copying (when the printshop is inconvenient), art dvds and books. |
| 92. | Tue, 10/16/07 6:54 PM | I chip in to the tune of $500 - $1000 per year. |
| 93. | Tue, 10/16/07 7:07 PM | Occasional copying expenses. I try to have the college pay for what it takes to run labs; otehrwise, no one has an idea of the real cost of education. |
| 94. | Tue, 10/16/07 7:52 PM | Copying of handouts |
| 95. | Tue, 10/16/07 8:34 PM | Treats (candy, cookies, donuts, etc) for test days. My laptop and all associated software/peripher!
als |
| 96. | Tue, 10/16/07 11:31 PM | trips to stores to obtain class supplies |
| 97. | Tue, 10/16/07 11:35 PM | Technology (computers, software)
Office supplies
Uncompensated grading and administration |
| 98. | Wed, 10/17/07 12:00 AM | Travel, computer services to keep the Learning Styles Survey up on an outside business server - about $500 per year. because it gets SO MUCH traffic |
| 99. | Wed, 10/17/07 3:14 AM | So many.. textbooks for entire student population in courses such as ESL where they cannot afford it, supplies, scholarships, tuitions, so many I cannot even remember. |
| 100. | Wed, 10/17/07 4:54 AM | Markers for the with boards, paper, printer ink, other office supplies. |
| 101. | Wed, 10/17/07 4:56 PM | duplication of course related materials |
| 102. | Wed, 10/17/07 5:3!
8 PM | short deadline duplication, calculators, office supplies |
| 103. | Wed, 10/17/07 7:00 PM | I regularly purchase books, cds, magazines, newspapers, etc. that I use in my classes. |
| 104. | Wed, 10/17/07 7:50 PM | classroom necessities; professional training courses |
| 105. | Thu, 10/18/07 3:09 PM | copies, reference materials |
| 106. | Thu, 10/18/07 4:38 PM | None. These are deductible expenses under "non-reimbursed employee expenses" on tax returns. |
| 107. | Thu, 10/18/07 6:57 PM | Donations to my classes, to my students and class materials. |
| 108. | Fri, 10/19/07 1:16 AM | All printer toner used at home, some office supplies. |
| 109. | Fri, 10/19/07 7:39 PM | gas/milage to teach between two campuses.
promotiobn for speciality classes. |
| 110. | Fri, 10/19/07 10:24 PM | classroom, office and lab supplies, books, tools, and media resources that are not available in closed caption format. Many materials, (even media being broadcast on public TV stations, are not available CC) |
| 111. | Sat, 10/20/07 12:11 AM | books, videos photocopying periodically |
| 112. | Sun, 10/21/07 5:19 AM | reference books
copy paper
ink for the printer (home computer)
activity supplies for ECE classes
CD's for PE classes |
| 113. | Mon, 10/22/07 6:00 PM | small items for demonstrations. |
| 114. | Tue, 10/23/07 12:26 AM | Faculty in our area almost always pay for their professional development courses, professional convention related fees (registration, hotel, transportation), parking fees when supervising students at extramural training facilities, duplication of instructional materials. |
| 115. | Wed, 10/24/07 4:32 PM | office supplies |
| 116. | Wed, 10/24/07 4:55 PM | Expenses for conferences. |
| 117. | Wed, 10/24/07 5:33 PM | student tech help and sometimes incidental lab equioment and supplies |
| 118. | Wed, 10/24/07 6:17 PM | some athletic related travel as athletic director |
| 119. | Thu, 10/25/07 12:11 AM | I often pay for copies, generally at least $300.00/semester. |
| 120. | Thu, 10/25/07 10:53 PM | Not so much presently, but in the past I have purchased posters, maps, movies, and made and laminated flash cards. |