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More than ever, higher ed needs a new approach to assessing what faculty do, writes Salvatore J. Catanzaro, who proposes an integrated teacher-scholar model. In the face of internal disenchantment about faculty recognition and reward systems, as well as external threats questioning the value of faculty work and tenure altogether, higher education needs a new approach to understanding, evaluating and recognizing what faculty do more than ever before. I propose what I’ve identified as the integrated teacher-scholar model, or ITSM.

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Colleges and universities should also protect BIPOC women from inappropriate resistance from students and colleagues. To do so, they should: Establish a policy for disruptive student classroom behavior. That behavior includes challenging BIPOC women’s authority and questioning their expertise, as well as various forms of harassment. BIPOC women often have no institutional recourse when they face raced and gendered challenges from students. Instead of leaving them to fend for themselves in a hostile climate, each institution should establish a policy for disruptive classroom behavior. It sho...