Institutions across the country are increasingly establishing or expanding post-tenure review mechanisms, often requiring tenured faculty to undergo comprehensive cyclical audits of their scholarship, teaching evaluations, and service allocations bey...
Modern institutional missions heavily encourage cross-disciplinary partnerships and public-facing research. However, legacy departmental committees frequently rely on narrow journal metrics that discount community-engaged scholarship. What approache...
Federal and international grant policies increasingly require open-access dissemination, yet the steep article processing charges (APCs) associated with high-impact open access publishing often strain non-grant-funded budgets. How does your institut...
While research output and teaching evaluations often take center stage in tenure deliberations, the transition to post-tenure life frequently brings an invisible flood of departmental and institutional committee assignments. How have you successfully...
With institutional support for professional development becoming increasingly fragmented, many faculty members are turning to external or informal mentorship networks to fill the void (see related blog post in this community for more on that!) For t...
As service expectations continue to expand without corresponding reductions in research or teaching loads, many tenure-track faculty are struggling with what is known as “the service trap"—the tendency to accept high-visibility but low-reward committ...
Emerging empirical data regarding the global open-access transition suggests that while open-science publication models significantly amplify citation counts outside academia, early-career researchers face major financial barriers due to high institu...
Modern institutional missions increasingly encourage faculty to engage in interdisciplinary partnerships and community-facing public scholarship to tackle real-world challenges. However, the evaluation metrics used by individual departmental promotio...
The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence tools in student writing has complicated traditional academic integrity frameworks and assessment design across university disciplines. In what ways have you modified your evaluation metrics...
Early-career faculty navigating the tenure track often report significant stress when attempting to establish boundaries between their research, teaching commitments, and institutional service. How does your department explicitly help pre-tenure facu...
With the rise of interdisciplinary funding requirements, what strategies have you found most effective for finding collaborators outside of your immediate department or college? Share both face-to-face and virtual/digital collaboration opportunities ...
How are you currently leveraging undergraduate research assistants to advance your tenure portfolio while simultaneously fulfilling your teaching and service requirements? In what ways do you ensure your professional relationship with TAs is mutually...
With administrative workloads increasing globally, share ways you’ve worked to balance your workload. What specific boundaries or digital tools have you implemented to ensure departmental service roles don't cannibalize the time needed for primary re...
As many international funding agencies now mandate Plan S compliance—which requires immediate open-access availability for all publicly funded research—how is this shift changing your strategy for selecting high-impact journals during your probationa...
Modern research increasingly requires large-scale collaboration across multiple fields, yet many tenure and promotion frameworks remain designed to evaluate the sole-authored model of success. How should departments better balance the growing expect...
While many universities now explicitly state that they value public-facing work, traditional promotion and tenure committees often struggle to quantify the impact of community outreach compared to standard peer-reviewed publications. For Discussion:...
Although the global pandemic is years in the past, its long-tail effects on scholarly pipelines—such as slowed publishing cycles and reduced reviewer pools—remain a documented challenge in 2026. Some schools of education have extended the use of "COV...
The "mid-career slump" triggered by exceptional administrative and service burdens post-tenure has become a topic of conversation as of late. New grant structures, such as those implemented for the 2025-2026 cycle at institutions like Chapman Univers...
Recent 2026 data from EDUCAUSE reveals a striking gap: while 94% of higher ed professionals have used AI tools in the last six months, only 54% are aware of institutional policies guiding that use. For tenured faculty, this creates a "Wild West" of s...
A primary friction point for tenured faculty is the hidden curriculum of administrative labor - committee reports, grant formatting, and departmental documentation. New Google Workspace for Education updates focus on streamlining these repetitive tas...
