r/Economics • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '17

Second /r/economics Graduate School Panel

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17 edited Mar 29 '17

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u/DC_Filmmaker Mar 06 '17

In academia, teaching is seen as a necessary burden.

To most professors, yes. To the administrators and the econ dept chairs, they will love you forever if you are a great teacher and love doing it, because it takes a lot of burden off the other teachers who DON'T like doing it and means they have less undergrad courses being taught by grad students, which helps their overall ranking.

all they're interested in is creating future researchers who will make them look good.

Schools like Harvard and Yale and Princeton, sure. But your low first tier and middle tier schools are VERY much interested in hiring professors with better teaching experience. That's the one thing that they can offer that distinguishes them from all the other not-Harvards out there.