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> If you want to have a tenure track "professor" position focused on teaching in a top-tier university, you need to be a great researcher as teaching skills are
by davidgay 3y ago
> If you want to have a tenure track "professor" position focused on teaching in a top-tier university, you need to be a great researcher as teaching skills are not considered much
Not completely true. UC Berkeley at least has tenure-track lecturers, now apparently mostly referred to as "Teaching Professors" (https://apo.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/teaching_professor_03-19-2015_policy.pdf https://apo.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/teaching_profes...)
A random (old) job post for this: https://gsso.ce.gatech.edu/2022/01/12/tenure-track-teaching-professor-position/ https://gsso.ce.gatech.edu/2022/01/12/tenure-track-teaching-...
- krastanov 3y agoYes, I mentioned this type of examples in the second half of my post. Thankfully these are becoming more common.
- davidgay 3y agoExcept that UC Berkeley most definitely is “in the rat-race to be "top-tier research institution" (probably more accurately described as one of the rat-race winners in many fields) - it’s definitely important that top-tier research institutions also provide quality teaching.
- krastanov 3y agoWe do agree on this. My second sentence is exactly what you just said: > Thankfully, many universities (even the prestigious ones) are now starting to hire more semi-permanent teaching-focused staff (and some even use the title professor for these).