In today’s Pope Center piece, Duke Cheston takes a look at the growing trend toward the division of labor at research universities — some professors are hired just to teach.

This is a perfectly sensible trend. Why insist that everyone on faculty at a research university go through the publish or perish grinder? When you reflect on the uselessness of much published research and the fact that many university budgets are swimming in red ink, exchanging some research profs who teach very little for teaching profs who only do research they think really makes an intellectual contribution looks like a good move.