Achievement Relative to Opportunity: Career Hijacks in the Academy

Hill, Beverley; Secker, Judith; Davidson, Fay

doi:10.1108/s1529-212620140000019004

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“…Hill, Secker, and Davidson (2014) argue in a recent article that if merit is to be taken seriously in the case of academic promotion, it is necessary to measure achievement relative to opportunity to take into account other activities and commitments that are of importance for the opportunity to research and publish.…”

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“…Thus, where the system of academic evaluation and review is supposed to be an objective review of the candidates’ scientific merits and prospects, one could argue that it is a review where the candidates who have been offered the most favorable conditions for international publications win. Hill, Secker, and Davidson (2014) argue in a recent article that if merit is to be taken seriously in the case of academic promotion, it is necessary to measure achievement relative to opportunity to take into account other activities and commitments that are of importance for the opportunity to research and publish.…”

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confidence: 99%

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From Collegial Organization to Strategic Management of Resources

Rasmussen

2015

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The article looks into the consequences for recruitment of Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's recommendations that universities should manage their resources strategically to foster excellence. Using institutional ethnography as described by Dorothy Smith in a sociology department in Norway, it shows how strategic recruiting for excellence resulted in nominating candidates who were not able to teach the sociology program. Operationalizing potential for excellence as the number of (international) publications in the last 5 years resulted in nominating candidates with narrow fields of expertise who had been offered favorable conditions to publish internationally. When academic quality is translated into the number of international publications in the last 5 years, it undermines the policy of gender equity in academia by ruling out women who use paid parental leave to have children during their PhD period. The focus on publications in English also threatens to marginalize sociology's contribution to public debate and national policy.

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Section: Qualifications or Favorable Conditions?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Recruiting the Best Candidates?mentioning

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From Collegial Organization to Strategic Management of Resources

Rasmussen

2015

Sage Open

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“…Given pervasive inequalities in access to opportunities and resources in academia, seriously considering systemic barriers and biases faced by the applicants may level the playing field for those starting their careers from underprivileged positions 23,30 . It also alleviates impact of nonlinear/interrupted academic careers paving the way for fairer evaluation of people with diverse backgrounds 48,60 . To achieve this, award applications could include a brief section on the barriers or constraints the applicant faced in their research.…”

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Little transparency and equity in scientific awards for early- and mid-career researchers in ecology and evolution

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“…A better way to reduce inequity may be to establish an achievement relative to opportunity policy (see Hill et al, 2014). This approach involves evaluating merit based on the value and breadth of teaching, research, and service taking into account any challenges that faculty encountered.…”

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“I Have No Time for Anything:” Differences in Faculty Research Productivity during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Carpenter¹,

Cotter²,

Berheide³

2021

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Research investigating the impact of the pandemic on university faculty has highlighted the extreme time and energy demands that have negatively affected scholarly productivity (Krukowski et al., 2020). The present study examines barriers to scholarly productivity that faculty at three small liberal arts colleges in New York State encountered during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results suggest that women and parents of children 18 and under living at home encountered more barriers to scholarly productivity than men and participants without children in this age range, signaling potentially devastating long-term career outcomes, especially for pre-tenure mothers of young children. Considering this rapidly worsening equity issue, recommendations are made for considering an achievement relative to opportunity policy for tenure and promotion reviews.

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Achievement Relative to Opportunity: Career Hijacks in the Academy

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

From Collegial Organization to Strategic Management of Resources

From Collegial Organization to Strategic Management of Resources

Little transparency and equity in scientific awards for early- and mid-career researchers in ecology and evolution

“I Have No Time for Anything:” Differences in Faculty Research Productivity during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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