Doing research that makes a difference

[sanantone]

I know the research I did was on a very small scale, but I hope to do more applied research in the future. Becoming a tenure-track professor is becoming less and less appealing to me. Even at "teaching colleges," they're looking for publications in academic journals. I had a professor tell me that he didn't have a lot of time to do the kind of research he wanted to do because he had to do stuff that had a higher chance of being published in order to qualify for tenure. I also had another professor say that she has to settle for be a B-grade teacher in order to be an A-grade researcher because that's what the university is expecting, especially since it is trying to become a Tier 1 school.