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Jun 1, 2023·edited Jun 1, 2023Liked by Jenn McClearen

Most of my career has been with teaching (or student?) centric institutions in social sciences and business. Most have a "purported" interest in and incentives for research and publication. They often do not have the funding to allow full-time focus on research activities.

A way to stay relevant in the research field is to work with groups of faculty ("consortia"), who can share the load. There is a coordination overhead in this that must be factored into the equation.

I also recommend to my HEI clients in this area that they adopt a faculty research and scholarship policy fashioned after Boyer's Model. Unless you are in the physical sciences and performing fundamental research, most faculty research will be the scholarship of application or integration. We also need more scholarship of teaching and learning but it is sadly neglected.

I am increasingly not impressed with institutions that go down the rabbit hole of ranked journals rather than discovering and acting on the research needs of institutional stakeholders.

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