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In October 2019, the Board on Higher Education and Workforce of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a convocation to highlight policies and strategies that affect the systems of reward and professional advancement for science, engineering, and medicine faculty in U.S. colleges and universities. The convocation was designed around conversations exploring how institutional policies and practices align with stated missions, identify promising current and experimental reward systems, and highlight models of assessing an academic career.
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Promotion, Tenure, and Advancement through the Lens of 2020: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief
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The COVID-19 pandemic upended nearly every aspect of academia, leading colleges and universities to reexamine how they instruct their students and how they reward their faculty. But the pandemic was not the only disruptive event that took place in 2020. Colleges and universities have been forced to...
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