Traditional Academic Requirements:faculty Perceptions

Clinical Practice: An Emphasis Strategy for Promotion and Tenure

“…The significance of clinical practice by tenure track faculty to the academic evaluation triad of research, teaching, and service and the process of promotion and tenure has been widely discussed since the 1980s (Ratcliffe & Andresky, 1988). Faculty reported that the additional expectation for active faculty practice, while desirable, would threaten the already limited time available for research and writing and could impede progress toward tenure (Herr, 1989).…”