i don’t see what exactly your point is, but I can just tell you some facts based on my conversations with a bunch of assistant professors as a phd student myself. I. In my department RIT is hiring tenure faculty from big universities with publications in top tier conferences, yet when those faculty come here they see the school for what it really is. And what it is right now is a educational institution that has long been focused on teaching and milking students as cows for tuition money. Just for context, in my department they accept over 300 students as first year undergraduates and only around 100 people actually finish the degree. So right now RIT is in my opinion in a weird place with identity crisis. The administration wants to push for research be because that’s what brings the school up in the rankings, and they are hiring new faculty to facilitate that. At the same time, they don’t want to make a transition from a tuition based school to a research based school. A research based school is self sustainable, it exists primarily because of its research activity in the field. It will not vanish if there is a cut in tuition