Session Abstract

Increasingly departments are being asked to quantify the professional productivity of faculty in a whole variety of ways.  Where the term "peer-reviewed" might once have been enough to suggest quality of scholarship, now departments grapple with impact factors, citation counts, and journal rankings in tenure and promotion decisions, annual review, and post-tenure review.  This session is designed to provide an interactive space for discussion of how department chairs are "counting" faculty productivity and how they are seeking to reframe the narrative to emphasize issues of quality as well as quantity.