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What is the main role of the university professor, to educate students or to do research? In this day and age, university professor, the most crucial backbone of higher education, is always trapped in numerous dilemmas: apply the academic exchange programs or not; attend the administrational conference or not; narrow my current research scope or not; offer the brilliant student a position or not? Eventually, they will encounter this one: what I devote myself for, academic researches or students? If they focus on the comprehensive instructions for students, significantly scientific researches will probably cease to develop. If they set back the on-class education and continuously work on science and researches, a majority of students, associated with many other people, will feel disappointed. Nevertheless,” many people think so” is not a wise excuse to follow their assertion. Generally speaking, the academic researches desire more time and afford from university professors.
At the first place, it is the breakthrough of university professors’ researches that gears up the development of the whole society. Under no circumstance should I suspect that universities have a greater chance to organize precisely designed academic systems than any other kind of scientific research institutions, both on software and on hardware. For instance, equipped with the most advanced computer database system, teams of professors from Stanford University have obtained many breakthroughs in internet development, raising the total operating speed of information technology industry. What is more, undertaking meaningful researches, professors always play appropriate role to transfer their academic study into realistic application. Because of their academic status, big financial groups and manufacturing corporations contend to offer fund for the cutting-edge researches, anticipating to be the first user of professors’ outcome.
Another equivalently important factor is that strong academic capacity always benefits the university itself on many levels. Although the quality of graduated students, the range of subjects as well as their scales all have great influence, U.S. News, the most recognized university ranking, regards academic power to be the supreme dimension to evaluate the fluctuated strengthens of universities. It is not unrealistic to raise donations and sponsors by an upward ranking trend. Take my brother Mike’s school as an example. Mike is a pharmacy student in Michigan State University. His department recently received a donation for talented students, because several new patents and drugs boost their professional ranking. In other words, with good academic reputation, universities can not only take more students of high potential, but also gain financial enrichment.
Granted, meticulous and efficient as they are, professors have no possibility to cover researches as well as heavy teaching tasks. Lots of students will argue that it is unfair when they pay great number of tuitions yet receiving education devoid of master’s intact teaching. However, it seems that students have omitted the essentials of advanced education- figuring out how to learn by yourself. It is you not the professors who can guide you into a path towards the successful life. Namely, Mark Zuckerburg has never counted on his professors’ directions or advice to create fabulous Facebook. Libraries, tutoring classes and students’ academic groups, these study resources enable every diligent student to gain as much as they dream about during the university times.
In nutshell, considering the outweighing advantages from researches illuminated above, professors should provide more time on researches rather than on teaching. |
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