Questions about the nature of what constitutes scholarship continue to abound in the academy. More than ever, professors now blog and contribute intellectual work to the public sphere. Theses and dissertations are becoming less text-centric than before, with students bringing multimodal forms of communication to their work. Sometimes a broadly focused piece in a new online journal with will have far more impact than a narrow piece of writing in a traditional print journal, presenting challenges for promotions and tenure committees who are struggling to understand this terrain. No matter what the issue, we’d like to focus on what is and should be changing in the support for and evaluation of digital scholarship. What are existing supports for digital scholarship and what is needed to more fully make Baruch College a digital destination for both students and faculty?
