Faculty Scholarship Committee

Faculty Scholarship Committee Web Site

Committee Members

• John Hamlin (jhamlin)
• Jill Jenson (jjenson)
• Helen Mongan-Rallis (hrallis)
• Peter Angelos (pangelos)
• Linda Deneen (chair) (ldeneen)

Committee Charge

Chancellor Martin has appointed this committee to develop "a campus wide statement that can be supported by the academic units and collegiate units in terms of the acceptability of technology and web-based research and scholarship within the promotion and tenure process."

Draft Final Report

Faculty Scholarship at UMD: Findings, Recommendations, Forms, and Samples

Open Forum on Faculty Scholarship
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
2-3 PM
Chem 150

Bibliography

Bibliography of Resources on Faculty Scholarship

Comment Form

Use this comment form to send anonymous comments to the committee.

Resources

The committee has found many resources on this topic. We list a few here for your information. For more, please see the Bibliography above.

• Scholarship Reconsidered, Boyer, Ernest L., The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1990. This book may be available from the Library or from members of the committee.
• Scholarship Assessed: A Special Report on Faculty Evaluation,Charles Glassick, Mary Taylor Huber, and Gene I. Maeroff, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1997. This book is out of print, although there are a few copies available on campus.
• Faculty Priorities Reconsidered: Rewarding Multiple Forms of Scholarship, KerryAnn O'Meara and R. Eugene Rice, Jossey-Bass, 2005.
• 'Scholarship Reconsidered' as Tenure Policy, Inside Higher Education.
• Rethinking Tenure - And Much More, Inside Higher Education.
• Has Scholarship Been Reconsidered? Inside Higher Education.
• The Scholarship of Teaching: New Elaborations, New Developments, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
• Taking Public Scholarship Seriously, The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Certifying Online Research, The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• The Number That's Devouring Science: The impact factor, once a simple way to rank scientific journals, has become an unyielding yardstick for hiring, tenure, and grants. The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Focus Groups

We scheduled focus groups to gather more information. These have now all been completed.