Further to my Woe Unto the PhD post below, my friend J linked to this article about Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee. Gee advocates that candidates for tenure be weighed for accomplishments other than the usual publish-in-a-scholarly-journal sort--these alternate qualifications could include teaching skills and mainstream writing (might that include exhibition catalogues?).
Related reading: Ernest Boyer's Scholarship Reconsidered. Or visit the Chronicle of Higher Education and search "tenure" for pages and pages of tales from the trenches.
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