Study Explores How Universities Deploy Faculty and Link to Professors' Pay

Inside Higher Ed
Study Explores How Universities Deploy Faculty and Link to Professors' Pay
By Colleen Flaherty

January 11, 2017 - A common criticism of the faculty reward system is that it tends to value research over teaching. A just-released working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research offers new evidence in support of that contention, suggesting that the number of students a professor teaches has relatively little to do with their compensation.