Faculty status for faculty
Over at Marion No More, Ludewig writes about the various ways faculty in different disciplines are credentialed and evaluated. In this great debate over faculty status for librarians, it is interesting to note that the tenure criteria for faculty in arts and sciences might be more different from each other than either are from the criteria for librarians. So perhaps the reason for debate is not that our work is so different from academic faculty, but that we occupy a different position in the institutional hierarchy. Not lower, just different.
