Issues in Scholarly Communication is a newsletter produced by Paula Kaufman, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, for the Illinois community. Entries from 2001-2005 newsletter are available.
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At many institutions, tenure has historically been determined by publishing and teaching records, with “service” a distant and poorly defined third criterion. With the idea of “public scholarship” — a broad term that encompasses any number of ways faculty members may work with and in various communities — gaining more attention, many scholars believe that tenure systems need revision. A large-scale effort to do that was announced Friday by Imagining America, a consortium of colleges that encourage faculty members to be active members of their local and national communities. The group announced the creation of a national commission — to be led by Nancy Cantor, chancellor of Syracuse University, and Steven D. Lavine, president of the California Institute of the Arts — that will develop new ways to evaluate faculty members in the arts and humanities. Members of the panel include other presidents, as well as deans and professors. The group hopes to produce models that deans and departments could use, to keep rigor high while also recognizing different forms of work. Inside Higher Education 10/3/05 http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/10/03/public
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