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Celebrate faculty/staff achievements 11/23-24

The 23rd annual exhibition of scholarly & creative works by UWW faculty & staff will celebrate accomplishments of the past year across a range of disciplines. A sampling of the articles, artwork, books, and presentations produced by the staff and … Continue reading

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Peer Reviewed Articles, Anyone?

Are you required to find “peer reviewed” (aka refereed) articles for your paper(s)? What the heck does that mean?! Peer review is a quality control process used by some scholarly journals to ensure that they only publish articles containing excellent … Continue reading

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Celebrate faculty/staff works

Celebrate the scholarship & creative achievements of UWW faculty and staff at the 22nd annual reception and exhibit in the Crossman Gallery (Greenhill Center of the Arts)! The exhibit is open on Tuesday, Nov. 24. The reception takes place on … Continue reading

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Broader Reach, Narrower Focus

As I was browsing my Facebook mini-feed, I noticed a link that a librarian friend had posted from the Very Short List about online scholarship. There has been a study done by James A. Evans, University of Chicago, and published … Continue reading

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Celebrate UWW faculty/staff Nov. 25 & 26

Celebrate the scholarship & creative achievements of UWW faculty and staff at the 21st annual reception and exhibit in the Crossman Gallery (Greenhill Center of the Arts)! The exhibit is open on Tuesday, Nov. 25. The reception takes place on … Continue reading

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Faculty/Staff Scholarship & Creative Achievements

UW-Whitewater faculty and staff scholarship and creative achievements during the period July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007 will be celebrated on November 20-21 in the Crossman Gallery (Greenhill Center for the Arts). The display of books, artwork, articles, and more will … Continue reading

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Western Carolina University adopting “Scholarship Reconsidered” as Tenure Policy

While academia praised Ernest Boyer’s idea in Scholarship Reconsidered (1990) to abandon the traditional “teaching vs research” model, most campuses were paying only lip service. Tenure and promotion decisions are still based on traditional measures of research success: books or … Continue reading

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