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Interdisciplinary Research, Tenure Review, and Guardians of the Disciplinary Order

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Elina I. Mäkinen; Eliza D. Evans; Daniel A. McFarland – Journal of Higher Education, 2025

While interdisciplinarity has been promoted in universities for decades, research suggests that untenured faculty struggle to receive recognition for their interdisciplinary research. Informed by the microfoundations of institutional theory and discursive legitimation, we examine how members of academic departments participate in the legitimation…

Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Faculty Evaluation, Faculty Promotion