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If I might take a moment of senior liberty on this matter: I was thinking earlier today about how we are now expected to rate the writing in doctoral Qualifying Exams on a scale of 1 to 5 in several categories; the words of detective John Spartan popped into my head and onto my tongue' "This fascist crap makes me want to puke." Will we simply continue counting beans rather than looking at the quality of the work as a whole and in the context of how it has functioned? Brian C. O’Connor, Ph.D. Visual Thinking Laboratory<http://vtl.unt.edu> <http://vtl.unt.edu>College of Information<http://ci.unt.edu> University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle 311068 Denton, Texas 76203-5107 940.206.1172 ________________________________ From: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Suzanne Stauffer [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 9:18 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: P&T standards Our College is in the process of creating a P&T policy, and -- at the direction of the university -- wants objective criteria; i.e., they want numbers. I've poked around a bit, and haven't found P&T policies online for more than one or two schools and those don't give numbers. So, I'm asking - what are your P&T requirements for research? Specifically, how many journal articles per year? Do you count books, and if so, how many points do they get? Do you weight articles according to the number of authors, that is, do single authored papers count for more? Suzanne M. Stauffer, Ph.D. Associate Professor School of Library and Information Science Louisiana State University 277 Coates Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (225)578-1461 Fax: (225)578-4581 [log in to unmask] Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? --T.S. Eliot, "Choruses from The Rock"