Category: Promotion, Tenure, and Evaluation
Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, the infamously dreary lawsuit at the center of Dickens’ Bleak House, dragged on for generations, cost a fortune, and fostered a climate of secrets, despair, and suicide, in which “. . . whole families . . . inherited ...
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor (October 24, 2022). We’ve all written them: the narratives or statements that frame our teaching for those reviewing our portfolios. Maybe the review is for a job; ...
There are those within academe who feel that academic freedom is limited to professors’ scholarly expertise in research and teaching. It is when they step out of this protected space and enter the larger, political ...
This article is the third in a series of four that provides an update on the activities and progress of those groups who want to eliminate tenure. Part 1 focused on why higher education is ...
External threats to tenure have escalated in recent years, and many people anticipate they will continue to do so, especially in view of the economic impact of the pandemic. In 2016, Wisconsin modified the University ...
While most of us have been occupied by the many facets of the pandemic and the attention that systemic racism and the social justice movement have generated, threats to the continuation of tenure have increased ...
Academic administrators are well aware that the faculty has changed dramatically, with 70 percent of the faculty now off the tenure track (52 percent part-time and 18 percent full-time, non–tenure track) (American Association of University ...
Despite the unprecedented impact of COVID-19 on higher education, recent discussions of productivity have been surprisingly traditional. Productivity continues to mean scholarly output in the form of monographs, peer-reviewed articles, conferences presentations, and grant proposals ...
Leaders at teaching universities should work to eliminate faculty publication and presentation requirements. Bowing out gracefully from the publication arena would reflect not a failure but rather a deliberate step toward priorities more aligned with ...
An international conversation around an increased focus on high-quality teaching at R1 institutions has been gaining momentum for several years. A recent shift in the conversation, focused on identifying fair and valid measures to evaluate ...
