Conference Session

Promotion and Tenure

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

James R. Alexander, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown; Donald D. Harter, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown; Jerry W. Samples, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators (NEE)

publication media. The paper goes on to note that today’s newprofessors are “caught between the times” when research and publications were paramount, andthe need to emphasize teaching is growing. Thus, new professors are now expected to do both,and do them well. And who are the judges? They are generally professors who survived theradical changes of the 60’s and 70’s, changes that saw publication as the only measure ofsuccess.Ernest Boyer’s work, Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate2 became Page 3.300.1prominent as the 90’s began, just when universities were looking at the role of teaching andpedagogy in the scholarly domain