Factors Limiting Research Productivity of Faculty Members of a State University The Pangasinan State University Alaminos City Campus Case

One of the fourfold functions of a state university is research. With this, all faculty members, regardless of academic rank are mandated to research. The study  was conducted to assess the factors limiting research productivity of the faculty members of the Pangasinan State University Alaminos City Campus. The descriptive research design was utilized in the study with the faculty members as respondents. Results of the study show that the research productivity of the faculty members is very low, wherein, only 46% of the faculty members were conducting research, 25% have presented their research outputs either in international, national, regional or local conferences, and 8.33% have  research publication. In general, the faculty members were moderately knowledgeable and moderately skilled on the different processes of research. Lack of financial resources, teaching overload, and other duties and functions were the problems encountered by those who have conducted researches. These were also the primary reasons why faculty members are not doing research.

Keywords – Research productivity, state universities, and colleges