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In reply to the discussion: Are University Professors overpaid? [View all]Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Most FT or tenured professors do little when it comes to teaching, except to lecture. They rarely change their lesson plans, and they certainly have plenty of idle time, because they have so few classes to teach. Often they have someone else (work study student or student assistant) grade their own student's work.
Most perform little or no research, and when they do, they are regurgitating old research as "meta".
Public universities pay their professors just fine for the modicum of work they actually perform, and professors, in general, should have a more pragmatic work ethic to keep up-to-date in their field, improve their teaching methodology, and add to the value of the academic experience.
(For those with with a habit of clutching pearls, please note the word "most". I'm sure that any professors reading this response are working their guts out rather than wasting time with an online political forum.)