Howard:
 
I have appended a letter from the UW-Foundation to my grant application at
 
http://math.uww.edu/~mcfarlat/grant99.htm
 
Among other things, the  UW-Foundation appears to suggest that Prof Harris
and I must create and de-bug the web-based Algebra software without any
compensation. I've spoken to Jon Enslin regarding this stipulation; Jon
states that the UWW-Foundation never funds faculty time, which is considered
spent as part of normal faculty duties. I cannot speak for Prof. Harris, but
working by myself, I will do what I can, but the product will not be as good,
will be far slower arriving, and will not contain features which only
Prof. Harris can build. Jon Enslin therefore invited me to approach you,
asking the university to fund the added time needed to complete the grant
project. Without this additional time beyond normal teaching duties, the
grant cannot be completed as conceived, and the funds should be returned.
 
Furthermore, my wife and daughter are complaining that I spend too
much time at the computer, and too little with them. The web
Algebra has had problems, as I anticipated. I have ideas on how to
solve most of them, but the course has consumed a great amount of time for
zero financial reward so far.

I have asked my grant co-designate, Prof Harris, about asking for an equity
pay raise commensurate with the skills needed, skills available, and time
consumed. Prof Harris responded:
 
["I can only agree.  The problems of keeping up with the technology in this
[ area only seem to be getting worse.  I plan to apply for a sabbatical next
[ fall for the fall or spring of the 2001-2002 year to study "modperl" and
[ other methods of supporting dynamic server page content." end of quote
 
Accordingly, Howard, since I may retire in 5 years or so anyway, I request
an equity payraise of $2500 annually, with the understanding that (in addition
to normal teaching duties) I will work on the development of web-based
software contributing to the partially funded grant at the above web address.
 
Furthermore, since some of the web devices named in the grant can be created
only by Prof Harris, and not by me, I request that Prof Harris also be given
an equity pay raise of $2500 annually.

Typically, neither of us (Prof Harris or myself) teach summer school, but we
both use summers to build tools for the academic year. I used the equivalent of
one third of an academic year last summer to build the existing Algebra web
course. I don't think that I have the energy to do this again without some
incentive.
 
Most Sincerely,
 
Tom McFarland