I'm a physics professor at a liberal arts college, and yes, we do very much value teaching here. Research is important, too, as a way for faculty to remain enga

I'm a physics professor at a liberal arts college, and yes, we do very much value teaching here. Research is important, too, as a way for faculty to remain engaged with their disciplines. But we actively look for ways to get undergraduates involved in our research, which makes it a teaching tool, too (a bit of an apprenticeship model). I like to think that our values lead to more reliably good educational outcomes at the undergraduate level than larger universities tend to manage (but it's hard to even figure out what to measure to verify that). (I do know, though, that I saw two fantastic teachers in my graduate department get denied tenure while I was there because (as we all gathered) their stellar research records might possibly have been even better if they'd spent less time on teaching.)