The Mystery of Faculty Priorities

From an Inside Higher Ed article:

"Remler, associate professor ofpublic affairs at Baruch College of the City University of New York, and Pema, an assistant professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School, decided to review the literature and economic theories that might explain the reasons more colleges and departments are encouraging their faculty members to focus on research, at the expense of teaching time. And they found an abundance of theories, some of which may overlap and some of which may conflict with one another. The authors suggest that higher education would benefit from figuring out just why this phenomenon has taken place, given its expense in money and faculty time."

Read the article:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/28/nber

We also have a link to the full report:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w14974.pdf