“Among the ‘horror stories’ Rosemary Feal has heard: Assistant professors who work in digital media and whose tenure review panels insist on evaluating them by printing out selected pages of their work. ‘It’s like evaluating an Academy Award entry based on 20 film stills,’ said Feal, executive director of the Modern Language Association. Such horror stories abound. Even as the use of electronic media has become common across fields for research and teaching, what is taken for granted among young scholars is still foreign to many of those who sit on tenure and promotion committees …” (more)
[Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, 26 May]