Constant vigilance, babelfish, and foot surgery: Perspectives on faculty status and tenure for academic librarians

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Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-22

  Hill, Janet Swan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 13444312035     PISSN: 15312542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pla.2005.0004     Document Type: Review

References (50)

1. American Association of University Professors, 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure with 1970 Interpretive Comments, http://www.aaup.org/statements/Redbook/1940stat.htm (accessed October 8,2004); Association of College & Research Libraries, "Guidelines for Academic Status for College and University Librarians," American Library Association (2003), http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/guidelinesacademic.htm (accessed October 7, 2004).
2. American Association of University Professors, 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure with 1970 Interpretive Comments, http://www.aaup.org/statements/Redbook/1940stat.htm (accessed October 8,2004); Association of College & Research Libraries, "Guidelines for Academic Status for College and University Librarians," American Library Association (2003), http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/guidelinesacademic.htm (accessed October 7, 2004).
3. Two relatively recent articles expressing doubts include: Thomas W. Leonhardt, "Faculty Status," Technicalities 24, 4 (July/August 2004): 3-5; _, "Do Librarians with Tenure Get More Respect?" American Libraries 34, 6 (June/July 2003): 70-2.
4. Two relatively recent articles expressing doubts include: Thomas W. Leonhardt, "Faculty Status," Technicalities 24, 4 (July/August 2004): 3-5; _, "Do Librarians with Tenure Get More Respect?" American Libraries 34, 6 (June/July 2003): 70-2.
5. Technically, the term "civil servant" applies to employees of the executive branch. Employees of the Library of Congress belong to the legislative branch and enjoy a status that is as close to civil service as can be achieved.
6. The suspension came about following a decision by the university president, who believed that the records of accomplishment compiled by individuals in practitioner fields such as librarianship and the performance arts did not justify tenure. Librarians without tenure were allowed to choose between standard faculty evaluation for tenure and a non-tenure-stream appointment. All but one chose the non-tenure-stream option. The system put in place in 1988 was implemented under a new president, by agreement between a new libraries' dean and a new provost.
7. Librarians might reasonably dispute this assessment of relative importance as being unrepresentative of a service discipline. Nevertheless, because the formula addresses the vague concept of "importance," and because expectations are phrased in terms of norms for the discipline, it has not been found to be a hindrance to librarians seeking tenure.
8. These efforts included serving as chair of a joint committee to assist the libraries in revising its tenure standards and as member of the campus-wide tenure review committee. One of the concrete products of the effort was the author's "Wearing Our Own Clothes: Librarians as Faculty," Journal of Academic Librarianship 29, 2 (May, 1994): 71-6.
9. Shannon Cary, "Faculty Rank, Status, and Tenure for Librarians," C&RL News 62, 5 (May 2001): 510-11, 520. Some greater detail for individual libraries can be found in Jack Siggins, comp., SPEC Kit 182 Academic Status for Librarians in ARL Libraries (Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, Office of Management Services, 1992).
10. Shannon Cary, "Faculty Rank, Status, and Tenure for Librarians," C&RL News 62, 5 (May 2001): 510-11, 520. Some greater detail for individual libraries can be found in Jack Siggins, comp., SPEC Kit 182 Academic Status for Librarians in ARL Libraries (Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, Office of Management Services, 1992).
11. Charles B. Lowry, "The Status of Faculty Status for Academic Librarians: A Twenty-Year Perspective," College & Research Libraries 54, 2 (March, 1993): 163-72. Lowry's study indicated that 67 percent of institutions of higher learning covered by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education granted their librarians faculty status. The 67 percent is an aggregate figure, as the percentages differed by type of institution (p. 165). Although this study is now more than ten years old, its longitudinal data showed a slight but steady trend upward (p. 171).
12. Richard P. Chait, "Gleanings," in The Questions of Tenure, ed. Richard P. Chait (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 310.
13. Lowry, 167. Lowry found that for libraries at institutions in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, 60 percent indicated having "the same criteria ... as those for teaching faculty." Yet anyone who has been an external reviewer for reappointment or tenure cases outside her own institution can attest to tremendous variation within that rubric
14. Richard P. Chait, ed., The Questions of Tenure (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002).
15. Danielle Bodrero Hoggan, "Faculty Status for Librarians in Higher Education," portal: Libraries and the Academy 3, 3 (2003): 431-45, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v003/3.3hoggan. html (accessed October 7, 2004).
16. Cathy A. Trower, "What is Current Policy?" in The Questions of Tenure, ed. Richard P. Chait (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 33.
17. American Association of University Professors.
18. Association of College & Research Libraries.
19. Rachel Appelgate, "Deconstructing Faculty Status: Research and Assumptions," Journal of Academic Librarianship 19, 3 (July 1993): 160.
20. The AAUP rationale may be found in American Association of University Professors, Policy Documents and Reports (Washington, D.C.: AAUP, 1995), 3; other discussion can be found in "Report of the University of Illinois Seminar on Tenure" (1997), 3, http://www.vpaa.uillinois.edu/reports_retreats/tenure_seminar.pdf (accessed October 7, 2004).
21. The AAUP rationale may be found in American Association of University Professors, Policy Documents and Reports (Washington, D.C.: AAUP, 1995), 3; other discussion can be found in "Report of the University of Illinois Seminar on Tenure" (1997), 3, http://www.vpaa.uillinois.edu/reports_retreats/tenure_seminar.pdf (accessed October 7, 2004).
22. Andrew Oldenquist, "Tenure: Academe's Peculiar Institution," in Morality, Responsibility, and the University: Studies in Academic Ethics, ed. Steven M. Cahn (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990), 58.
23. Robert W. McGee and Walter E. Block, "Academic Tenure: An Economic Critique," Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 14, 2 (Spring 1991): 547.
24. Charles T. Clotfelter, "Can Faculty Be Induced to Relinquish Tenure?" in The Questions of Tenure, ed. Richard P. Chait (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), xxx.
25. "Report of the University of Illinois Seminar on Tenure," 7.
26. Ibid., 10.
27. Cathy A. Trower, "Can Colleges Competitively Recruit Faculty without the Prospect of Tenure?" in The Questions of Tenure, ed. Richard P. Chait (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 182-220. These and other rationales are covered.
28. Richard P. Chait, "Does Faculty Governance Differ at Colleges with Tenure and Colleges Without Tenure?" in The Questions of Tenure, ed. Richard P. Chait (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 77-8.
29. Mark Y. Herring and Michael Gorman, "Do Librarians with Tenure Get More Respect?" American Libraries 34, 6 (June/July, 2003): 72.
30. Bonnie Horenstein, "Job Satisfaction of Academic Librarians: An Examination of the Relationships between Satisfaction, Faculty Status, and Participation," College & Research Libraries 54, 3 (May 1993): 255-69; Michael Koenig, Ronald Morrison, and Linda Roberts, "Faculty Status for Library Professionals: Its Effect on Job Turnover and Job Satisfaction Among University Research Library Directors," College & Research Libraries 57, 3 (May 1996): 295-300.
31. Bonnie Horenstein, "Job Satisfaction of Academic Librarians: An Examination of the Relationships between Satisfaction, Faculty Status, and Participation," College & Research Libraries 54, 3 (May 1993): 255-69; Michael Koenig, Ronald Morrison, and Linda Roberts, "Faculty Status for Library Professionals: Its Effect on Job Turnover and Job Satisfaction Among University Research Library Directors," College & Research Libraries 57, 3 (May 1996): 295-300.
32. Marjorie A. Benedict, "Librarians' Satisfaction with Faculty Status," College & Research Libraries 52, 6 (November 1991): 538-48.
33. Two such studies are: Dale S. Montanelli and Patricia F. Stenstrom, "The Benefits of Research for Academic Librarians and the Institutions They Serve," College & Research Libraries 47, 5 (September 1986): 482-5; Richard W. Meyer, "A Measure of the Impact of Tenure," College & Research Libraries 60, 2 (March 1999): 110-9.
34. Two such studies are: Dale S. Montanelli and Patricia F. Stenstrom, "The Benefits of Research for Academic Librarians and the Institutions They Serve," College & Research Libraries 47, 5 (September 1986): 482-5; Richard W. Meyer, "A Measure of the Impact of Tenure," College & Research Libraries 60, 2 (March 1999): 110-9.
35. Applegate, 158-64.
36. "Librarianship: A Summary of the Field" in University Libraries Faculty Handbook, http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/internal/fac/VB.1_sumfield.pdf (accessed October 8, 2004).
37. The University Libraries Faculty Handbook can be seen at http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/internal/fac/index.htm. The "Tenure Related Documents Guide Page" can be seen at http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/internal/fac/V.D.4.1_guide.pdf (accessed October 8, 2004).
38. The University Libraries Faculty Handbook can be seen at http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/internal/fac/index.htm. The "Tenure Related Documents Guide Page" can be seen at http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/internal/fac/V.D.4.1_guide.pdf (accessed October 8, 2004).
39. Rudolph H. Weingartner, "Ethics in Academic Personnel Processes: The Tenure Decision," in Morality, Responsibility, and the University: Studies in Academic Ethics, ed. Steven M. Cahn (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990). These and other issues are addressed throughout the chapter.
40. Mary Reichel, "Peer Review Evaluation and Promotion" (presentation, "What's in a Name: Defining Our Profession," symposium sponsored by the Greater New York Metropolitan Area Chapter of ACRL, New York, November 15, 2002). Reichel indicated that understanding the peer review process is a common problem.
41. Richard T. DeGeorge, Academic Freedom and Tenure: Ethical Issues (Lariham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), 29-52. These and other issues are discussed in chapter 2.
42. Many papers allude to the need for acculturation, but for an article that has the issue as its primary focus see W. Bede Mitchell and Bruce Morton, "On Becoming Faculty Librarians: Acculturation Problems and Remedies, " College & Research Libraries 53, 5 (September 1992): 379-92.
43. At the University of Colorado, comprehensive review takes place in the fourth year after appointment as assistant professor.
44. Cathy A. Trower and James P. Honan, "How Might Data Be Used?" in The Questions of Tenure, ed. Richard P. Chait (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 296.
45. http: //www.babelfish.org/ (accessed October 7, 2004).
46. "Michelle 'Kwan-derful' toppt Kat Witt," Available: http:/www.sportl.de/coremedia/generator/www.sportl.de/Sportarten/Wintersport/ Eiskunstlauf/Berichte/Nachbericht/ win_20eiskunst_20wm_20kwan_20siegt_20damenkonkurrenz_20mel.html (accessed March 1, 2003; site no longer available).
47. Women's College Coalition, "Benefits of Women's Colleges, http://www.womenscolleges.org/ (accessed October 7, 2004).
48. A few of the case studies that exist are: Lothar Spang, "Collective Bargaining and Faculty Status: A Twenty-Year Case Study of Wayne State University Librarians," College & Research Libraries 54, 3 (May 1993): 241-53; Pat Weaver-Meyers, "Conflict Resolution: A Case Study About Academic Librarians and Faculty Status," College & Research Libraries (January 2002): 25-34; and "Faculty Status Movement-Chronology," State University of New York at Buffalo, http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/faculty/fec/libfac/chron.html (accessed October 8, 2004).
49. A few of the case studies that exist are: Lothar Spang, "Collective Bargaining and Faculty Status: A Twenty-Year Case Study of Wayne State University Librarians," College & Research Libraries 54, 3 (May 1993): 241-53; Pat Weaver-Meyers, "Conflict Resolution: A Case Study About Academic Librarians and Faculty Status," College & Research Libraries (January 2002): 25-34; and "Faculty Status Movement-Chronology," State University of New York at Buffalo, http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/faculty/fec/libfac/chron.html (accessed October 8, 2004).
50. A few of the case studies that exist are: Lothar Spang, "Collective Bargaining and Faculty Status: A Twenty-Year Case Study of Wayne State University Librarians," College & Research Libraries 54, 3 (May 1993): 241-53; Pat Weaver-Meyers, "Conflict Resolution: A Case Study About Academic Librarians and Faculty Status," College & Research Libraries (January 2002): 25-34; and "Faculty Status Movement-Chronology," State University of New York at Buffalo, http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/faculty/fec/libfac/chron.html (accessed October 8, 2004).