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The traditional view holds that research and frequent publication are essential to keep teaching current, supported by official university and CAUT positions. 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of the professor's workload.How relevant areresearch and publication to the quality of undergraduate instruction?Universities have traditionally maintained that such research and publicationare essential to excellent teaching.However,research studies for many yearshave consistently revealed that such a claim has no apparent basis in fact,anda number of other commentators have complained about the deleterious effectof research and publication on instruction.Thus,in the new university-collegesthe instructors'workloads should not be based upon the models common inuniversities.  \n## RÉSUMÉ\n\nLa création de nouveaux colleges universitaires en Colombie-Britannique nousdonne I'occasion de réévaluer la charge de travail des professeurs d'université.Jusqu'à quel point la recherche et les publications sont-elles nécessaires à unenseignement universitaire de premier cycle?De tous temps,les universités ontmaintenu que ces activités étaient essentielles à un enseignement de grandequalité.Pourtant,des études menées ces dernieres années ont constammentmontré que ces arguments n'étaient pas fondés dans les faits tandis quedautres observateurs se plaignaient des effets négatifs de la recherche sur laqualité de Ienseignement.La charge de travail des professeurs des nouveauxcolleges universitaires de Colombie-Britannique ne devrait donc pas prendreen compte les modeles existants dans les universités.  \nThe recent transformation of the university-transfer curriculum in threecommunity colleges in British Columbia(in Malaspina College in Nanaimo,Okanagan College in Vernon,and Cariboo College in Kamloops)from  \ntwo-year to four-year degree programmes has in the past few months rekindledthe old debate about the appropriate relationship between academic research,publication,and teaching.Traditionally,faculty in these community collegeshave seen teaching as their main responsibility,and,although each institutionpromotes professional development,there has been no obligation for instructorsto conduct original research or to publish.Now,however,the addition ofupper-division courses and the presence of the sponsoring universities indiscussions about hiring and curriculum planning are placing considerablepressure on these colleges to alter their customary priorities,so that facultyteaching in the upper-division programmes organize their working lives morealong the same lines as the university professor,with significantly more timedevoted to research and publication and considerably less to teaching.Thisdevelopment has initiated some important and sometimes contumaciousdiscussions about the most appropriate role for the instructor of undergraduates,and the arguments will presumably continue for some time until an agreement isreached and codified in a new contract.Clearly the issue is crucial to thecolleges,for its resolution will determine whether these new four-yearprogrammes become an important and long-overdue reform in undergraduateeducation or whether they will simply perpetuate the erroneous workingprinciple which,more than any other single organizing factor,creates seriousproblems for the undergraduate programme in our universities.  \nOn the relationship between academic research,publishing,and instruction,the official university stance has been clear and firm for many years.Article 1in the “Preamble Statement on Academic Appointments and Tenure”in theCAUT Handbook(1979)declares:\"The essential functions of a university arethe pursuit and dissemination of knowledge and understanding,throughresearch and teaching”(p.8).And the relationship between the two is equallyunambiguous in the CAUT recommendations to the federal and provincialgovernments(1987):“CAUT firmly believes that the teaching and researchfunctions of the university should not normally be separated.Research informsthe tea","cbCait8ViqJzw1xI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait8ViqJzw1xI","pdf",355570,"English","# ABSTRACT\n## Professor workload and the 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