Teaching vs Research: What’s our business?
Higher education institutions seems to reward research success more than teaching success. Tenure is granted based on publication. We admire prolific publishers and research grant winners more than recipients of our undergraduate teaching awards or those whose students go on to achieve greatness (do we even correlate post-graduate success with specific teachers?). Yet most universities, even top 10 R1 institutions, even state universities getting state funds, depend more on tuition revenue than indirect cost recovery from research grants or state grants. So are higher ed schools just bad managers: rewarding behavior that does not clearly contribute to our core … Continue Reading