Varenne believes universities and society should examine how universities are internally organized and funded, for instance the length of tenure, and especially the federal grants for research. But, we can t discount the value of university research, Varenne said. The university represents a quality research with peer review, which is a guarantee to the community of its validity. While Cuban admits to little optimism that universities can reverse the asymmetry between teaching and research, he did indicate that with the rise in tuition costs in the early 1990s, concern over the quality of teaching has increased. This is not a polemic against research, said Cuban.
Society prizes the creation of knowledge and lodges that at the university.
Yet, if you consider teaching as a moral endeavor and disseminating knowledge as the role of the university, publishing is only one way to do that.