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The Curricula of Data and Tenure

Abstract

Tenure and promotion, regardless of context, can be an anxiety-filled time in any scholarly experience. Attending to the intersection of a data-driven tenure and promotion process at a large state institution, this paper considers the curriculum of metrics that emerges from the author’s critical feminist autobiographical narrative. This curriculum, like many curricular dialogues in the field of curriculum studies, attends to the always already complex nature of curriculum as it is imbricated with local and less local sociopolitical and cultural norms and values. Specifically, this paper attends to the intra-actions of the hidden and enacted curricula as they are enmeshed with the broader curriculum of metrics. Finally, this paper briefly explores questions of agency as they are emergent in and across intra-actions and moments of friction in the tenure and promotion process.