Valuing and evaluating academic digital humanities practice are topics of discussion at many colleges and universities, including UNC. Here are some contributions to this ongoing and rapidly expanding discussion: promotion and tenure guidelines from professional organizations and other universities, essays, blog posts, and podcasts.
http://digitalhumanities.unc.edu/resources/valuing-evaluating-dh-practice
Art History and its Publications in the Electronic Age
A report by Hilary Ballon and Mariët Westermann.- Beyond Productivity: Information, Technology, Innovation, and Creativity
A report from the National Research Council (2003) on intersection of information technology, art, and design. Ths sixth section, “Schools, College, and Universities” includes a discussion of particular interest to departments with faculty in new media. - A Call to Redefine Historical Scholarship in the Digital Turn
Developed at THATCamp AHA and submitted to the American Historical Association’s Research Division in January 2012. - Evaluating Digital Scholarship
By Todd Presner, Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies at the University of California Los Angeles and Chair of the Faculty Steering Committee at the UCLA Center for Digital Humanities. - Evaluating Digital Scholarship
A series of articles appearing in Profession, a publication of the Modern Language Association (MLA). - Evaluating Digital Scholarship, Promotion & Tenure Cases
From the University of Virginia. - Evaluation Criteria for the Scholarship of Engagement
A list of questions to consider when evaluating faculty engaged in academically relevant work that simultaneously meets campus mission and goals as well as community needs. - Evaluation Wiki
A community effort to gather resources related to the evaluation of digital scholarship. Hosted by the Modern Language Association (MLA). - Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Media Activities in Tenure, Review and Promotion
From the American Association for History and Computing (AAHC). - Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media
From the Modern Language Association (MLA). - Guidelines for the Recognition of Computing in Humanities Scholarship
From the University of Victoria. - How Can a Digital Humanist Get Tenure?
A post by Cathy Davidson of Duke University over on HASTAC. - Journal of Digital Humanities, Fall 2012 (Vol. 1, No. 4)
A special issue featuring articles on the assessment and evaluation of DH work. - Making Digital Scholarship Count: Part 1 Part 2 & Part 3
A series of blog posts by Mills Kelly, Director, Global Affairs, George Mason University. - Making It Count
A podcast with Dan Cohen, Mills Kelly and Tom Scheinfeldt of George Mason University. - New Criteria for New Media
An argument for redefining promotion and tenure criteria for faculty in new media departments of today’s universities from the University of Maine. - NINES/NEH Summer Institutes Whitepapers and Documents
Includes Digital Humanities Scholarship: Recommendations for Chairs in Language and Literature Departments, Guidelines for Promotion and Tenure Committees in Judging Digital Work, and aStatement on Authorship. - Our Capacious Caper: Exposing Print-Culture Bias in Departmental Tenure Documents
An article by Valerie Lee and Cynthia L. Selfe of Ohio State University. - Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
A book by Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Professor of Media Studies, Pomona College. - Promotion and Tenure Criteria for Assessing Digital Research in the Humanities
From the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. - Promotion and Tenure for Digital Scholarship
From Texas A&M University. - Promotion and Tenure Guidelines for Work with Technology
From the Conference on College Composition and Communication. - The Promotion that Matters:
In Evaluating Digital Humanities, Enthusiasm May Outpace Best Practices
An article by Steve Kolowich published in Inside Higher Ed in January 2012. - Redefining Historical Scholarship
A 1993 report from the American Historical Association (AHA). Though the report does not deal directly with the digital humanities, it represents an effort to think more broadly about historical scholarship in ways that are very much related to current discussions about digital humanities practice. - Report of the MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion
Related materials, such as survey findings and op-eds on the Task Force report, are availablehere. - Respecting the Meaning of Tenure
A post by Cathy Davidson of Duke University over on HASTAC. - Right Here, Right Now: A Crystallization of Purpose
A 2009 speech by Gorden Gee, President of Ohio State University. Toward the end, Gee discusses the changing nature of scholarship and academic practice. See especially pages 8-10. - Scholarship, Liberated from Paper at Last
An op-ed in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Randolph W. Hall, Vice President for Research, University of Southern California that describes USC’s recently revamped promotion and tenure guidelines. - Suggested Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Media Activities in Tenure, Review, and Promotion
From the American Historical Association. - Tenure, Promotion and Digital Publication
An article by Joseph Raben, professor emeritus of English, Queens College, City University of New York, in the inaugural issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly, published in 2007. - Tenure, Promotion and the Publicly Engaged Academic Historian
A report from the Working Group on Evaluating Public History Scholarship with representatives from the American Historical Association, National Council on Public History, and the Organization of American Historians. - Valuing and Evaluating Digital Humanities Practice
A PowerPoint presentation used to jump-start a conversation involving UNC-Chapel Hill administrators and faculty.