{"id":2788,"date":"2013-05-15T13:25:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T18:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2014-06-13T15:13:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T20:13:37","slug":"changing-tenure-and-promotion-standards-jitp-online-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2013\/05\/15\/changing-tenure-and-promotion-standards-jitp-online-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing tenure and promotion standards \u2013 JITP Online Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2803\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/15rfd-image-custom3-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"15rfd-image-custom3\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/15rfd-image-custom3-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/15rfd-image-custom3.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nFinally, the article that I submitted on <a href=\"http:\/\/jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/establishing-a-new-paradigm-the-call-to-reform-the-tenure-and-promotion-standards-for-digital-media-faculty\/\">\u201cEstablishing a New Paradigm: The call to reform the tenure and promotion standards for digital media faculty\u201d<\/a> premiered today in the <a title=\"JITP\" href=\"http:\/\/jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/\">Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy<\/a>. The focus of the article is to illustrate the challenges facing digital media faculty as they march towards tenure and promotion, and present a case for reform of the current system. The article was a deeply personal research project for me as it chronicled my journey through the tenure system at LaGuardia.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction for the journal\u00a0prominently\u00a0featured a brief editorial review of my article that was rather positive. &#8220;Establishing a New Paradigm&#8221; was described as showing &#8220;how the tenure and promotion processes for most faculty working and publishing with digital technologies are ill-suited to recognize, reward, and nurture the intellectual and scholarly activities that such academics must undertake to stay abreast of rapid changes in their fields&#8221;.\u00a0I was elated that the editors thought that I argued &#8220;forcefully that the academy must adapt its employment structures to more explicitly support and reward precisely the type of work that lies at the heart of the other three pieces in this issue&#8221;.\u00a0I have to admit that those words brought a smile to my face.<\/p>\n<p>A digital copy of just my article on tenure and promotion reform can be found <a title=\"Establishing a new paradigm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrichardson.net\/raw\/establishing_a_new_paradigm2.pdf\">here in pdf format<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, the article that I submitted on \u201cEstablishing a New Paradigm: The call to reform the tenure and promotion standards for digital media faculty\u201d premiered today in the the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[342,9,18,307,2],"tags":[75,760,14,117,32,761],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-education","category-laguardia","category-new-media","category-publications","category-technology","tag-center-for-teaching-and-learning","tag-laguardia","tag-laguardia-community-college","tag-microsoft","tag-multimedia","tag-new-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3960,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}