[TOS] Reworking faculty evaluation criteria for collaborative / networked disciplines

[Frank Hecker]

I've been doing a fair amount of online reading about new media art
(partly Mozilla-related, partly for my own interest) and came across
something I thought might be of interest: The guidelines that the New
Media department at the University of Maine has created for evaluating
faculty:

http://newmedia.umaine.edu/interarchive/new_criteria_for_new_media.html
http://newmedia.umaine.edu/interarchive/promotion_tenure_redefinitions.html

Faculty working in new media art have similar issues to what we've
discussed in the context of TOS: much work is done collaboratively
both across institutions and with people outside academia, much
"publication" is done via informal channels (mailing lists, blogs,
wikis, etc.), and there's not a lot of traditional institutional
acceptance and promotion of people's work. So I thought the approach U
of Maine is taking might be of interest.

Frank

-- 
Frank Hecker