Faculty members at Rutgers University in New Jersey are pushing back against an expensive data system purchased by the university to track faculty productivity in the form of journal articles , citations , books , research grants , and awards , as they have consistently found inaccuracies in the data collected . The Chronicle of Higher Education reports the database , maintained by Academic Analytics , tracks the work of more than 270,000 faculty members nationwide , giving administrators a chance to measure their faculty 's productivity and compare them to national benchmarks . "We’re putting aside not only quality but the fact that there are emerging fields, interdisciplinary knowledge, people like me who want to take risks," she said. However , the faculty were forced to vote unanimously on a resolution that asks the university to limit its use of the data , arguing skewed data will negatively impact the way professors decide to do their work .
Faculty members at Rutgers University in New Jersey are pushing back against an expensive data system purchased by the university to track faculty productivity in the form of journal articles , citations , books , research grants , and awards , as they have consistently found inaccuracies in the data collected . The Chronicle of Higher Education reports the database , maintained by Academic Analytics , tracks the work of more than 270,000 faculty members nationwide , giving administrators a chance to measure their faculty 's productivity and compare them to national benchmarks . However , the faculty were forced to vote unanimously on a resolution that asks the university to limit its use of the data , arguing skewed data will negatively impact the way professors decide to do their work .