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February 23, 2026
March 9, 2025
In this article, we found that women letter writers tend to use less doubt language, fewer personal pronouns, and overall a more positive tone. After collecting data from a sample of 10,056 ERL emphasizing gender roles, we found that a higher proportion of women letter writers is linked to...
February 6, 2025
"A Legacy of Triumph and a Vision for the Future" is the theme of this year's Black Excellence Symposium at UC Merced.
The event, part of the university's Valuing Black Lives Initiative, has aimed to advance racial justice and Black liberation since 2021. The symposium is set...
November 5, 2024
Promotion and tenure actions are among the most critical personnel decisions any college or university will make. They are crucial to maintaining academic freedom and unfettered inquiry. Cumulatively, they help gear up (or wind down) a department's intellectual horsepower, and they ultimately...
November 5, 2024
Welcome to Race on Campus. Many institutions want to to improve faculty diversity. Getting to that goal is tricky. That’s why Christiane Spitzmueller, a psychology professor at the University of Houston, and her colleagues studied faculty searches at the university to identify what exactly...
November 5, 2024
Promotion and tenure processes in higher education are critical to the integrity of America's science enterprise. They determine which faculty members continue their careers and whose career aspirations come to a screeching halt by a tenure denial. At the core of the system is the notion that...
October 4, 2024
The study "Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions", by Theodore Masters-Waage, Christiane Spitzmueller, Ebenezer Edema-Sillo, Ally St. Aubin, Michelle Penn-Marshall, Erika Henderson, Peggy Lindner, Cynthia Werner, Tracey...
December 21, 2023
Our research article entitled "External review letters in academic promotion and tenure decisions are reflective of reviewer characteristics" dives into the significant role that external review letters (ERLs) play in the promotion and tenure (P&T) process. The study examines 995 ERLs...
January 14, 2019
A new study of more than 3,ooo university faculty has found that tenure-track women working in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields receive smaller salary increases associated with their research productivity than do men.
The research paper entitled, Higher...
