<p>Not every school is filled with the tweed-and-elbow-patch wearing tenure demons that some of you are envisioning. Departments often specialize more to the teaching or research end, and they don’t hide that fact. My current grad department doesn’t even have an undergrad program. It runs on research dollars (and grad student tuition, which is mostly paid by grant money as well). There aren’t enough classes for each professor to teach even one apiece.</p>