Fister, Barbara. (2010, February 25). The Inflatable CV | Peer to Peer Review. Library Journal. Retrieved February 26, 2010, from http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6720404.html?nid=2673&source=link&rid=5152712
Fister, inspired by news in the Chronicle, examines how the tenure system focuses on how much rather than how well (resulting in libraries having to purchase a lot of crap). Here is an excerpt:
…Even those critics who complain about the corporatization of higher education fail to examine their own publishing practices as a symptom of the commodification of knowledge. We chafe against the marketing of higher education, but feel trapped into selling ourselves. There should be only one question related to scholarship on the tenure test, and it’s not “how much did you publish?” It’s “what difference does it make?”
