“Forget impact factors, h-indexes and other sophisticated formulae used to gauge academic output. Evaluating faculty at Texas A&M University could soon be as simple as balancing a cheque book. According to the Bryan-College Station Eagle, administrators at the 11-university system are pushing for a programme that assigns a simple net value to each faculty member – how much money they bring in from teaching and research, less their salary …” (more)
[Ewen Callaway, The Great Beyond, 3 September]