&gt; A better approach would be to offer comparable pay and status to professors who spend most of their time teaching, reserving reduced teaching loads for professors whose research continues to have significance and impact.<p>I think the problem with this is that you have no idea up front which research is going to be significant and impactful and which isn&#x27;t. If you knew what the outcome was going to be, it wouldn&#x27;t be research, now would it?