At Kent State University, tenure and promotion have to do with more than the traditional trio: teaching, research, and service. Instead, basing their criteria on the model proposed by Ernest Boyer in Scholarship Reconsidered, promotion committees evaluate faculty based on five items: discovery, or their aptitude for discovering new knowledge; integration, or their ability to integrate different ideas and activities into their professional life; application, or evidence that they have applied knowledge in the field; teaching; and university citizenship. For faculty members at Kent State, scholarship is a combination of these five elements. Plans for the future call for faculty within departments to work in teams, addressing the five criteria as a group.
