It’s not an either/or. Great universities can have both teaching focused faculty and research focused faculty. Also the vast majority of undergraduates are taki

It’s not an either/or. Great universities can have both teaching focused faculty and research focused faculty. Also the vast majority of undergraduates are taking basic fundamentals courses - not courses that involve “leading edge” research. University or college this thread is about the crunch teaching undergraduates, not research focused grad students. Also what you will find the is in research focused universities, the "leading edge" researchers you cite teach very few classes. Many of them teach no classes or one or two a year. Hence the problem that this thread began with regarding load. The fact is these classes are being taught by graduate students or adjuncts when the student population would be better served by full time teaching-focused faculty.