The Research University and the PhD Octopus

The modern research university emerges in the late 19th century. By 1903 William James, the great Harvard psychologist wrote an essay called the PhD octopus. Every professor now has to get a PhD,. no matter where you teach, and the PhD is a research degree. Any second taken away from that work, specifically for teaching, which of course demands a lot of time, is a step towards career suicide. If you already have 10 your careers stagnation.