Are There Any Rewards for Teaching

Abstract

tion (13). All these research investigations indicate that university reward systems undervalue teaching. Research by Blackburn, Pellino, Boberg, and O'Con nell (3), however, reveals that nearly all professors in all institutional types across all professorial ranks and academic disciplines regard teaching as their central task. Thus, the university seems possessed of an "in stitutional schizophrenia" (5) which encourages im provement in teaching effectiveness but fails to reward it. Policies and practices that ignore, however unwitting ly, the professoriate's regard for teaching contribute to