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...shortage of teachers?and their new respectability???has given professors mobility and financial independence, which too many use to demand fewer teaching hours so that they can spend more time in research, writing and lucrative consultation. At the nation's top universities, the average science professor carries only six classroom hours a week, the humanities teacher about eight. A "star" system has evolved in which, for example, Columbia College Dean David Truman wonders how he can keep a professor whom another school has offered $30,000 a year, with no teaching and $100,000 for laboratory equipment. Some...
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