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CA 76.***.47.254

Research (pub and grant) may not be mandatory but could get low score in merit/annual review (=> no or min salary increase).
Also, colleagues may think: why s/he comes to office?
Dept chair can assign more teaching or admin.
And students hear about many high tech stuffs.