This paper examines the mandate of Higher Education Institution (HEI) faculty, being transmitters and producers of knowledge, to engage in research and to publish their scholarly works in peer reviewed journals aside from their tasks in classroom instruction and community extension. The quality of research and publication of higher education institutions are areas examined during accreditation as measures of the extent on how research culture has been nurtured among their faculty members. But there are constraints in the performance of research task which are not at all real reasons—some are imagined—that have psychologically driven them away from their scholarships aside from having a limited research budget and facilities available to them. A change is needed in the social construction of faculty about what teaching is in HEI as well as in their imagination of incompetency to research and publish. Personal commitment to learn the craft and collaborate with others as well as the institutional support regarding enough time and incentives to engage in scholarly works may help.
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