Graduate Student Perspectives of the Balance BetweenResearch and Teaching – A Preliminary Report

摘要

To gauge graduate student views on the relative importance of undergraduate teaching and research, a national survey is being conducted across a variety of higher education institutions. Survey respondents provide not only their personal opinions on the research – teaching balance, but their perceptions of views held by other shareholders such as faculty, fellow students and the general public. The data is analyzed and compared to a similar study conducted at Syracuse University in 1995 on faculty perspectives of the research – teaching balance. A preliminary subset of the survey data is included here. The completed survey will be available and presented at the conference.