School of Publishing, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
Scholarly Communications Lab, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
Elife. 2019 Feb 12;8:e42254. doi: 10.7554/eLife.42254.
Much of the work done by faculty at both public and private universities has significant public dimensions: it is often paid for by public funds; it is often aimed at serving the public good; and it is often subject to public evaluation. To understand how the public dimensions of faculty work are valued, we analyzed review, promotion, and tenure documents from a representative sample of 129 universities in the US and Canada. Terms and concepts related to public and community are mentioned in a large portion of documents, but mostly in ways that relate to service, which is an undervalued aspect of academic careers. Moreover, the documents make significant mention of traditional research outputs and citation-based metrics: however, such outputs and metrics reward faculty work targeted to academics, and often disregard the public dimensions. Institutions that seek to embody their public mission could therefore work towards changing how faculty work is assessed and incentivized.
这些工作往往由公共资金支付；通常旨在服务于公共利益；并且通常需要接受公众评估。为了了解人们如何看待教师工作的公共属性，我们分析了来自美国和加拿大的 129 所大学的具有代表性的样本的评审、晋升和终身教职文件。在很大一部分文件中，都提到了与公共和社区相关的术语和概念，但大多是与服务相关的，而服务是学术职业中被低估的一个方面。此外，这些文件还大量提到了传统的研究成果和基于引文的指标：然而，这些产出和指标奖励的是针对学术界的教师工作，往往忽视了公共属性。因此，那些希望体现其公共使命的机构可以努力改变对教师工作的评估和激励方式。
