September 12, 2003
Should Colleges Check Up on Professors?
Professors are hired on the strength of their credentials. The rest of the world gets by
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with one-page résumés, but in academe, a curriculum vita with dozens of pages is standard. What more could a prospective employer want to know? The answer, increasingly, is: Does that
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