The Chronicle of Higher Education
By Audrey Williams June
October 8, 2018
Scholarly work that serves the public is the kind of thing that, theoretically, universities want faculty members to pursue. But a new study of the language used by more than 100 colleges in their tenure-and-promotion criteria shows little evidence that such scholarship is valued in a way that advances faculty careers.
And because of that, faculty members are given incentives mostly to pursue research that fits in an established framework.
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