we don’t offer really much in the way of monetary incentives to get involved and,
although I’m sure some faculty would say that’s what we needed to, but partly
what you’re trying to do here, I mean to the extent that faculty are being
motivated by stipends and incentives and so on, it’s not going to result in a lasting
change.
In assessing the impact of working on a collaborative initiative on tenure, Todd
Collins stated, “yeah it looks great on my tenure packet but that’s not what they’re
looking for for the tenure packet. So that, while it might be a little gold star on the tenure
packet it’s not something they’re really going to look at.” Jennifer Johnson commented
that she would like to see such efforts more valued but was candid in saying, “I don’t see
much on that front. I don’t even know how you’d do it.” George Snyder did note