Figure 2 shows that research activities consume the vast majority of the tenured faculty’s time. Nationally, the trend appears to be much the same way. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that as recently as 1998, 36% of full-time university faculty taught fewer than four hours per week, but by 2003 that number was almost half.

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As costs rise, are students getting a better education?

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