• Since the three principles (engaged scholars, range of appropriate scholarly activities, peer review) provide only abstract guidance, the departmental document devotes much space to examples.

• The department was particularly resistant to making quantitative statements regarding expectations (e.g., number published works, number pages, weight in pounds).

  • In any individual case, scholarship is considered part of an overall package for tenure and promotion.
  • Document is meant to reflect different foci and approaches in the various sub-disciplines.
  • Document was meant to be illustrative, rather than comprehensive or complete.

• Policy URL: http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~walker/dept/scholarship-expectations.html

• Discussions are underway within Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) regarding the collection of models for evaluating faculty scholarship. See the discussion of the SIGCSE Committee Initiative on www.sigcse.org within a few weeks for details.

created 3 January 2006 last revised 13 January 2006

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