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Shocker, it's amazing the amount of research lecturers have to do just to keep their job. Really, universities are such archaic institutions.
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It depends on the type of professor, there are graduate research professors but they rarely teach undergrad classes. New professors often don't do much research at all, they typically teach the classes that older and more well entrenched professors don't want to dedicate time to. Research isn't about keeping your job either, professors do research in their field because
that is what an academic does. It isn't an additional hoop they jump through as part of the job, it's a major and absolutely critical component of it. The idea of a teacher whoes single responsibility is to just teach classes really dies out after highschool, if that's all the teacher can handle then they aren't qualified to work at the university level.
I'd love to hear your explanation about the 'archaic institutions' comment, but you may be refering to the sordid state of arts programs and the people who pass themselves off as professors in them. Arts education in America
is archaic, I agree. But you're seeing the inevitable fate of anything which no longer serves its original purpose and has little residual value to the kids that learn it.