What is the value of public outreach for an early-career scholar? Does it help or hurt your chances of getting, and keeping, a tenure-track job?
A recent advice column in The Chronicle — "Which Publications Matter at Which Stages of Your Career?" — argued that junior colleagues are devoting too much time to op-eds, blog posts, and other types of "less than impressive" public writing not published in top-tier academic journals or written in service to monographs or grant proposals. Instead, it said, they should "be calculating" about which publications will actually lead to tenure, and which won't.
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