Promotion and Tenure Guidelines Addendum: Rationale for Redefined Criteria
New Media Department, University of Maine
Promotion and Tenure Guidelines Addendum: Rationale for Redefined Criteria
New Criteria for New Media
Version 2.2, January 2007
Authors: Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito, and Owen Smith in collaboration with Steve Evans and Nate Stormer.
ABSTRACT: An argument for redefining promotion and tenure criteria for faculty in new media departments of
today’s universities.
Introduction
Recognition and achievement in the field of new media must be measured by standards as high as but different from those in established artistic or scientific disciplines. As the reports from the American Council of Learned Societies[1], the Modern Language Association[2], and the
University of Maine[3] recommend, promotion and tenure guidelines must be revised to encourage the creative and innovative use of technology
if universities are to remain competitive in the 21st century.
http://newmedia.umaine.edu/interarchive/new_criteria_for_new_media.html