MA3 Challenge awards grants to six universities to modernize promotion and tenure processes: Here’s the question of the day.

Why it matters: It has been widely argued that universities should update promotion and tenure systems to better value activities that advance access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and especially strengthen public engagement with science (see Aurbach et al., 2023). But implementation has been slow and uneven. A new funding initiative is testing whether that can change. What we know: Six universities have each received $250,000 through the Modernizing Academic Appointment & Advancement...