Comments on: credentialing

By: Suresh Venkat

Suresh Venkat — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:55:41 +0000

The problem is in the implementation of that notion as an exercise in gatekeeping, and its subsequent transformation into a means of creating authority in and of itselfThis is an excellent point.

By: Shakespeare Quarterly’s Experiment in Open Review « Uncollected Thoughts

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:02:50 +0000

[...] the chance to have their input showcased in print.” (Score 1 for grad students!!) Picking up on Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s work on open review as a way to rethink how institutions credit the labor of reviewing, Rowe [...]

By: Maria Bustillos

Maria Bustillos — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:05:01 +0000

And not just publishable, from what I can make out as a civilian, but which actually endorses and strengthens the work of the seniors who are doing the advising. Cui bono, as usual (?)

By: Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Kathleen Fitzpatrick — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:46:21 +0000

Absolutely — and in the safest forms possible. In fact, a study of UC faculty that was done a couple of years ago showed, fascinatingly enough, that the most conservative sector of the faculty with respect to considering new modes of digital publishing was junior faculty, who for all the obvious reasons are reluctant to strike out into risky territory…

By: David Parry

David Parry — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:46:34 +0000

I think this also has the result of affecting the content of the scholarship junior faculty produce. Junior faculty are advised, and often take said advice, to work on something that is publishable.