If the way faculty approach scholarship is to change, the way tenure committees approach faculty must change first. Syracuse University has developed a checklist to help discipline and tenure committees judge faculty service in terms of its scholarly integrity. The checklist offers ways of measuring five key aspects of faculty work that engages the outside community, including: the discipline-related expertise required; the innovativeness of the work; its replicability or potential for elaboration; its potential for documentation and peer review; and its significance or impact.
