ABSTRACT
The relative emphasis on the two main academic responsibilities - educating students and advancing knowledge through research - differs widely among academic institutions. “Publish or perish” is the derogatory slogan readily voiced by those who are critical of too much emphasis on publishing research and too little on teaching in the major academic institutions, as if there were something despicable about the demand that scholars and scientists endeavor to advance knowledge and make the results of their endeavors public. The findings of the preliminary analysis imply that academic institutions that emphasize research tend to place relatively little emphasis on teaching and vice versa. Higher salaries in academic institutions promote greater emphasis on research, in all three respects considered. Faculty members generally have both more and better qualified colleagues in their own field in large than in small academic institutions.
