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Pursuing a service agenda on a Catholic campus.

Women in Higher Education

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Teaching, research and community service represent the three prongs of a successful academic career. Yet research seems to be the only one to be valued when it comes to promotion and tenure.

Because Catholic social teaching emphasizes social justice, it seems logical that Catholic schools should wholeheartedly support and reward service. But promotion and tenure committees in religious schools devalue service as much as they do at secular schools.

At a plenary session of the biennial conference of the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education (NAWCHE) held at Providence College RI in June, a panel discussed how women can change that ...

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