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...
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November 5, 2024
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...
