To be honest I'm glad that professors are doing more research and instructors are more pure instructors. The typical professor has 4 jobs: Researcher, Fundrai

To be honest I'm glad that professors are doing more research and instructors are more pure instructors. The typical professor has 4 jobs: Researcher, Fundraiser, Teacher and Evaluator. They all have a conflict of interest with each other in some way and they'll all steal your shower focus. If they were all separated, universities could provide much better services in each job category. I remember Knuth saying something along the lines of "I retired so I can actually focus on research and attend less meetings". Students won't have to deal with the scheduling nightmare that is final exams because professors are too valuable to provide flexible (scheduling wise) examination services. Things like back to back finals or having them 3 days after the 'get all of your large projects in' end of classes rush don't have to happen anymore! People who want to interact with professors can come on as undergrad research assistants/apprentices and actually learn some research vs. some extension of high school. Professors wouldn't have to deal with something alot of them aren't that good at and most dread and actually get the grants they need!