A new Carnegie Foundation report recommends expanding the concept of faculty scholarship to recognize and reward teaching, service, textbook writing, and other faculty activities. Campuses can accommodate faculty's shifting interests by encouraging movement from one activity to another, possibly with short-term contracts spelling out scholarly…

Scholars are welcoming new efforts to emphasize quality over quantity in faculty scholarship. The latest critic is Stanford University's president, Donald Kennedy, who proposes a policy limiting the number of publications that candidates for tenure and promotion can submit to evaluation panels. Much concern is directed at the sciences. (MSE)

Some academics who are deeply religious are frustrated by an academic culture they feel marginalizes religious views and want to acknowledge the role religion plays in their lives and their scholarship. In some cases, the issue has resulted in court litigation. (MSE)

Concerns about changing standards of scholarship prompted the University of Arizona to bar tenured professors no longer active in their disciplines, and not meeting current institutional standards for tenure, from evaluating colleagues for tenure and promotion. (MSE)

Recent cases of scholarly plagiarism raise issues concerning the varied policies of institutions of higher education and learned societies (e.g., American Sociological Association and the American Association of University Professors) concerning plagiarism investigations and sanctions. A need for more coherent procedures and for distinctions…

Since Syracuse University (New York) started a campaign to reward teaching, it has entered several related projects, including a national survey on how teaching and research are valued by campus groups, a six-university self-examination of reward systems, and a project asking learned societies to consider a broader view of scholarship. (MSE)

A case of suspected scholarly plagiarism by Charles P. Gallmeier is reported and used to illustrate issues in plagiarism, including the definition of plagiarism, the role of motive in defining plagiarism, the appropriate investigative body, appropriate due process and punishment, and the academic community's responsibility to inform members of…

Citing a severe decline in academic standards due to political and social influences, a group of conservative scholars criticizes the "radicalization" of the college curriculum and danger to academic freedom. (MSE)

Each U.S. full-time college faculty member averaged 2 refereed journal articles and 0.6 scholarly books, chapters in edited volumes, monographs, or textbooks in the previous 2 years, according to 1988 Education Department data. Research university professors averaged twice as many publications. Another study found most work uncited after five…

Pasupati Mukerjee, a pharmacy professor, is crusading for quality, not quantity, in academic scholarship. He points to the lasting impact of work of brilliant scientists with questionable credentials, and proposes more emphasis on a scholar's long-term record of citation by other scholars as a faculty evaluation criterion. (MSE)

Hoping to gain prestige and financial support for research, many four-year institutions have toughened faculty tenure and promotion standards to require more and better research. Some older faculty have been surpassed in salary and perquisites by younger, more aggressive scholars. Morale problems and concern over evaluation criteria have resulted.…