<p>@aglages</p>
<p>Ideally, professors wouldn’t need to worry about funding their positions through grants and research and could concentrate solely on teaching. Ideally, there would be such an ample supply of professors and graduate students in the sciences that universities would have the luxury to pick and choose who they hire. This is what I meant by “ideal situation.” Yet that’s clearly not the case and, frankly, hasn’t been the case for the last 20-30 years, so it can’t have come as a surprise to you. How big of a “problem” you make this to be–or how you decide to go about it–is entirely up to you. I personally don’t have a lot of experience when it comes to Pitt, but others who do have stated that in their opinion this is not a big issue.</p>