April 28, 2000

Rewards Remain Dim for Professors Who Pursue Digital Scholarship

By VINCENT KIERNAN

A case study at Indiana University shows that ways to evaluate online work are still lacking

Leslie Whitman's application for tenure at Indiana University went down in flames a few weeks ago, even though the assistant professor of English was heavily immersed in the brave new world of Web-based research and teaching.

But the scholar won't be driving the proverbial

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