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Forbes Leadership Education University Of Houston Research Team To Study The College Promotion And Tenure Process

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...

Want More Diverse Faculty Applicant Pool? Conside Search Committee

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...

$2M Grant to Examine What Drives Promotion and Tenure Outcomes in Higher Ed

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...

Underrepresented Minority Faculty in the US Face a Double Standard in Promotion and Tenure Decisions

October 4, 2024
A new study has found that Black and Hispanic faculty face disadvantages in the way their promotion and tenure dossiers are evaluated by their academic colleagues. The paper, “Underrepresented Minority Faculty in the US Face a Double Standard in Promotion and Tenure Decisions,”...

 

The current research was supported with funding from the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. NSF ADVANCE IT Grant #1409928 and NSF EHR research grant #2100034 to the University of Houston, PI: Madera, J.; NSF Racial Equity in STEM Education Grant #2411941 to the University of Merced, PI: Spitzmueller, C. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this website are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.