Deal Breakers: U Policies That Matter

For many of us, university policies concerning everything from digital scholarship to partner benefits can be a deal breaker. But policies and procedures are in constant flux, and department-level protocols are often hard to find online. For that reason, Academic Jobs wiki users are invited to file known policy and procedure information on this page, following the basic posting guidelines for the "Universities to Love" and "Universities to Fear."

Here, in particular, please be sure to end your post with the month and year. That will help site visitors put information into context and, when relevant, seek out updates.

Formatting for the table


 * - New line


 * School || Department || Issue and Date

Please add responses using an asterisk to denote a bullet point.

'''Some formatting etiquette. Before you add your entry, please read this:'''

1) Please do not use the PRE button to format your entry.

2) Do not insert extra hard returns to create line spaces in any of the columns. This will throw the table formatting off and give everyone a headache.

To create a new Department entry in the same school and line up your comment with that Department, insert a new row and duplicate the school name, then add your Department and Issue/Date entry.

If you enter a new Department entry below an existing one in the same row and try to space it out using hard returns so that your comment lines up visually with your Department entry, you will throw the formatting off (and someone will have to spend hours fixing it again). Bottom line: please don't do that!

Policies on Recognizing and Evaluating Digital Scholarship
For general information (as opposed to the specific info and links below), scholars interested in standing policies and guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship might like to check the Modern Language Association's Evaluation Wiki. The section called Links and Bibliography may be especially helpful.

U Policies
alphabetically by school

Comments
February 1: Thanks to the person who set this table up. It looks like it might take some time to generate responses, but it's a great resource for thinking strategically about potential employers.