tenure & promotion – Alyssa Arbuckle

On Putting the Humanities PhD to Work by Katina Rogers

September 6, 2020 Alyssa Comments 0 Comment

In Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving In and Beyond the Classroom, Katina Rogers takes graduate training reform as her mission. She argues that current graduate training is not fit for purpose; i.e., it primarily trains PhDs to become tenured track faculty members when A) there are very limited TT faculty jobs, and B) most PhDs end up working in other roles or industries altogether. In doing so, Rogers suggests, academia replicates inequalities as a very small (generally moneyed)…

On “Why We Publish Where We Do: Faculty Publishing Values and Their Relationship to Review, Promotion and Tenure Expectations,” by Meredith T. Niles et al.

March 29, 2020 Alyssa Comments 0 Comment

In this study, Meredith T. Niles, Lesley A. Schimanski, Erin C. McKiernan, and Juan Pablo Alperin focus on the gap between what faculty express as their own publishing values and what they assume their colleagues values are. Niles et al. demonstrate that although faculty suggest their own publishing values are community-oriented (e.g. they are concerned with relevant journals, audience reach, and open access), faculty also believe their colleagues to value journal prestige and impact more. This is impactful research; as…