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Today is the deadline to submit my annual review. August 20 is my deadline for submitting my tenure portfolio. I will write about how I’ve played the game and published in peer-reviewed journals and done service by sitting and chairing various committees…blah, blah, blah. But, I also intend to make the case that the time I’ve spent this year blogging, twittering, networking, etc. should “count” for tenure consideration. Ernest Boyer wrote about the “Scholarship of Application” (and, BTW, Western Carolina University formally adopted Boyer’s ideas into their tenure criteria last year). Others, including Richard Lerner, have written about “Outreach Scholarship.” These ideas certainly blur the distinction between the academic holy trinity (teaching, research, service).
Well, Boyer, Lerner et al. never contemplated the read/write Web or RSS or online social networking. So the question I’m pondering is how might we conceptualize the role of higher education faculty where everything is miscellaneous and everybody is coming?
I’d appreciate any help you can offer as I ponder…
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