I've written a new post at my public Wordpress blog, one I've been meaning to publish for some time but got mired in endless editing and tweaking.

"The research and teaching link: worth strengthening, not severing"

And it starts a little something like this:

Amidst a spectrum of positions on the relationship (or lack thereof) between research and teaching, I hold that research and teaching are integrally connected forms of academic labour: they drive, inform, and improve each other. The exact character and extent of the relationship between research and teaching has become a point for heated debate, of late: the emergence of the “teaching-stream” university model – in which courses and programs are taught by instructors who do no research – is a recent result of this debate, and I would suggest it is also a deeply troubling symptom of the neoliberal hegemony under which the modern university is increasingly a transnational corporation, and decreasingly an institution of public service and public interest.

Read on there, and comment either hither or thither, as you like.