Of course the answers will vary depending on country, university, rank, and other factors. But it will be interesting to see how much discrepancy and similarity there is among us. Please indicate your country, university (unless you prefer to withhold this information), rank (assistant, associate, full--if you use such rankings), responsibilities expressed as percentage: teaching, research-publication, department service (committees), university service, academic-professional service. Professors without teaching duties should indicate "research professor." Do you teach fewer classes with more research expected with a higher rank? What's your opinion of your workload? Too much? About right? What would you change about this higher education paradigm or model?
there are three main functions of faculty members: teaching, research and outreach and engagement.
you can have look at this book:
Boyer, Ernest L. (1990) Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
the role of the university as a whole, is the individual role of parts: therefore the role of professor is as listed and even more importantly is mentorship
John - correct - it will vary from country-to-country - and even state-to-state in some countries. Not all professors teach (lecture) - but I feel that they should. It's 'giving back' to the student community. Research and publication, to me, come hand-in-hand - so they are the same thing. Your don't mention it in your title, but you do mention it as part of your elaboration, is that university governance (service) is perhaps one of the main roles - and this includes engagement with key community stake-holders outside the university as well.
A career as a college professor isn’t for everyone. It requires a true passion for learning and an expert level knowledge base to even be considered for a college professor job.
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