Since Ernest Boyer's landmark 1990 report, Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, leaders in higher education, including academic medicine, have advocated that faculty members apply their expertise in new and creative ways in partnership with communities. Such community engagement can take many forms, including community-based teaching, research, clinical care, and service. ...

In Canada, women are earning an increasing number of doctoral degrees; yet, they less likely to secure a tenure-track position. A feminist thematic analysis semi-structured interviews with 20 academic mothers from two Canadian universities reveals the range challenges that encounter in relation care on tenure-track. First, theme “fear post-partum erasure” captured faculty mothers’ experiences f...

Tertiary education is now accessible even to those who appear unlikely ex ante to succeed in jobs requiring post-high school education. Institutions that have broadened access to their programs must rely on two things to protect the quality of the degrees they award: selection mechanisms operating during students’ tenure, and effective teaching. This paper explores the relative strength of thes...

This paper presents the inferential analysis of a systematic survey of North American library and information science (LIS) faculty awareness of, attitudes towards and experience with open-access scholarly publishing. The study reveals that engagement with open access is related to faculty rank and perceptions about tenure and promotion committee assessments of open-access publications. The per...

Every year, in hundreds of universities and colleges throughout the world, thousands of academic administrators go through the painful process of evaluating tens of thousands of candidates for promotion. In most cases, their decisions are based on a faculty committee’s appraisal of the candidate’s teaching ability, research performance, and involvement in the scholarly community. Although this ...