Posted on August 18 at 12:30 a.m.

"If faculty choose the first furlough option then obviously
they just go with the flow, blow any idealism about
genuine teaching, and utilize the furloughs to ensure
themselves of three and four-day free weekends"

Actually: I would pick my furlough days to be
on days when I am not scheduled to teach
a class.
This would minimize the impact on classroom education.
On those days I would still work on my research and (of
course) continue to advise my graduate students
and postdoctoral scholars. The few colleagues with
whom I discussed this issue would do the same.

A UCSB professor

On UCSB Faculty Fumes at Furloughs Forum