Interesting misleading headline in this article from COHE. Gist of the story is folks at North Carolina State University recognized that cross-disciplinary hiring challenges organizational status quo - especially department level control of resources - and that this manifests in, among other places, tenure and promotion. Their response was to take the bull by the horns and create evaluation process and funding scheme to attenuate these effects. No small part of the challenges emerge from departmental understanding that a primary component of their raison d'être is producing basic research. As definitions of what that means shift change can be expected. And over time we can expect that colleges that do not have primary research results as a fundamental output will catch on in the spirit of "if they can do it, maybe we can too."
Read more at COHE
