Many students enter the university to taking high-level education, which is a qualification of the job with a clear path forward professional advancement. When they start their new study life, however, the situation entirely different: professor prefers ding research then teaching students, students are confusing about how to getting knowledge. What an ironically sense of university, the students cannot adapt the new life and professor only focus themselves. This situation is harmful the environment of collage and brake the study atmosphere.
What the professor should do is leading their freshman to go to the lab and doing research together, which is the best way to help them adapt university life.
On the other hand, the modern teaching style is teaching and studying together. Indeed, the university students should study individually and try to do research by themselves, which is not meant professor and students cannot do research together. So that the answer of which is important role of university professor do research or educate students is simple, because they are not contradiction. The days are gone which students and professor have different mission. If every professor never educates his or her students, how does the freshman adapt new leaning style? Undergraduate student is new to them life, and college is the beginning of their life, every one hope their can get enough care and eyes. In a word, every body should try to create a perfect study environment.
In some words, university professor can educate students with doing research. For example, go to lab with their students and point every key of the doing research, which is the best way lead students to their new life.