{"id":583,"date":"2006-01-05T12:10:31","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T20:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/01\/tenure-reform\/"},"modified":"2006-01-05T12:10:31","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T20:10:31","slug":"tenure-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/01\/tenure-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenure reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Inside Higher Ed<\/i>: <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/01\/05\/tenure\">A Tenure Reform Plan With Legs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1998, a group of provosts of research universities circulated a document calling for bold reforms of the tenure process. Traditional publishing was becoming an economic sinkhole, they argued. Junior professors couldn\u2019t get published. University presses and journal publishers were losing too much money. Libraries couldn\u2019t afford to buy the new scholarship that was published. Somehow, they argued, the system needed to change \u2014 with less emphasis on traditional publishing and more creativity about how to evaluate professors up for promotion.<\/p>\n<p>The document was widely discussed (and praised) by provosts. It went nowhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: A Tenure Reform Plan With Legs In 1998, a group of provosts of research universities circulated a document calling for bold reforms of the tenure process. Traditional publishing was becoming an economic sinkhole, they argued. Junior professors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/01\/tenure-reform\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tenure-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}