This is certainly a key part of why I like UMM so much. (Nearly) everyone understands that high quality teaching is our reason for being, but there is still support for doing high quality research (and wonderful students to do it with).

Sadly, I expect that grant funding is considerably more important than prestige to this particular calculus. If that’s true, though, then entities like the NSF do have the ability to leverage schools into placing more emphasis on teaching.

Makes perfect sense from the University perspective. The students will come either way and most won’t choose a school because awesome Prof. X teaches there.

Research on the other hand brings lasting prestige in the academic world and can be the source of considerable grant funding.

This issue is actually a big part of why I haven’t pursued academia professionally. I’d enjoy the teaching and occasional research, but I’m not interested in being a researcher 24/7.