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[sanantone]

It is true that research is not the #1 priority at research universities. Research and publication comes in at #1 while teaching comes in at #2. You can't really say if grad students are more important than undergrad students because some professors teach more courses to one than the other. If you're at a school with a lot of adjuncts, then the instructor's full-time job will be #1 while teaching is #2. Unfortunately, full-time jobs at community colleges are becoming rarer, so many of the instructors will be adjuncts. I've attended two traditional universities, three community colleges (actually more, but a few of those were in the same system), and two for-profit colleges. The for-profit colleges had the worst instructors, in my experience. The community colleges had good and bad instructors. Sometimes, the adjuncts would be unavailable because they had to travel out of town for work. The traditional universities had good and bad professors, but mostly good ones. There is only one professor in my PhD program known for being a bad teacher. A couple of them are mediocre, but most are good. In my online master's program at a traditional university, my professors got to know me because they worked full-time. My community college professors barely remembered me when I asked for letters of recommendation because they had so many students in a short period of time.

I taught at a for-profit school where they wanted us to do research and publish, but hardly anyone did because we didn't have time. We barely had time to prepare our lecture materials because we were always bogged down with meetings, making changes, and paperwork; but, this school was accredited by ACCSC which is horrible.