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Ask the Administrator: How to Stay Current with a 15 Credit Load? | Confessions of a Community College Dean

I have been pondering the role of research in higher education and what role it plays in opportunity for students.

In graduate school, we train people in research. When hiring to teach higher ed, we (generally) expect people to have PhDs or a similar terminal degree in a discipline because then they should ostensibly be somewhat knowledgeable about not only the history of the discipline, but the current trends, and how new knowledge in that field is constructed (I realize that there are fields that are exceptions to this). And when we take them out of the field of study, that is take them away from research, do we not take them away from this endeavor?

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