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Should writing for the public count toward tenure?

  • Written by Amy Schalet, Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of the Public Engagement Project, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageWhy scholars need to talk about their research with the lay public.AIDSVaccine, CC BY-NC-ND

Many pressing issues have been calling for attention these days – the unprecedented increase in mortality rates among white Americans, the Black Lives Matter movement and the upending of the Republican Party.

At the root of many of these issues are...

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