3 key findings -
1. Full-time tenured faculty or tenure-track faculty generate the most external R%D funding. A university may save money when hiring non-tenure track faculty but end up losing on external funding.
2. Increasing the number of part-time faculty while not changing the number of full-time faculty can boost external funding - probabaly because full-time faculty
have to teach less and can devote more time to results.3. Increases in graduate enrollments are associated with higher levels of external funding. Even full-time professors need worker bees to help out.
Research universities do indeed play a valuable role but like many things in life there are trade-offs. More part-time faculty allows for more research, but students have to learn from part-timers.
Graduate assistants can teach classes but there are trade-offs.
Less full-timers equal less external funding.
Where is the right balance?
What do you think?
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