One of the most important balances you are advised to learn as a tenure-track and a tenured professor is that between research and teaching. The college measure

One of the most important balances you are advised to learn as a tenure-track and a tenured professor is that between research and teaching. The college measures your performance, and hence decides if you get tenured, based, among others, on how much research (publications) and on your teaching evaluations. At least officially, for a tenure track professor (mine is a Math dept.) both research and teaching are equally important, but while you can limit the time spent on teaching (preparing notes, office hours etc.) research and service take all the rest. Spin off the med schools and research institutes, they say. University presidents “should be musing about education, not angling for another center on antiterrorist technologies.” Isn't the purpose of a scholar that of creating knowledge and disseminating it? I don't think a professor that does only teaching can create knowledge, at least not as much as the one that does both --- with the right balance, obviously.