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5 days ago

> Partially because Universities insist on making professors both teach and perform research

That alone would not be problematic. The real problem is that they insist on it, but only evaluate them on their research. That doesn’t create an incentive to spend time on getting better at teaching.

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rtkwe  5 days ago

That's not universal, it factors in at some points at least at some universities, my wife is going through her reappointment after her first year as a professor at an R2 HBCU and teacher evals are part of it from what I've heard of the process there and she was definitely hired as principally a research oriented professor.

  • f1shy  3 days ago

    I can speak of Europe, is /mostly/ so (certainly not 100%) Poorer countries, paradoxically, because have less research, people teaching are there for, and like, teaching, explaining.