UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — For the past 14 years, Penn State’s University Libraries and the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost and the Office of the President have sponsored an initiative to recognize recently tenured and promoted Penn State faculty. Through the University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition Program, each newly tenured or promoted faculty is asked to select a book for the University Libraries’ collection that receives a bookplate commemorating the achievement.
This year’s newly promoted and tenured faculty, effective July 1, were announced in May and their book titles submitted during the summer.
Books selected and personal statements about the significance of the books give insight into Penn State’s multifaceted faculty, with professionally and individually meaningful selections that enlighten and inspire, as well as provide a thought-provoking reading list.
Titles selected range from textbooks and scholarly monographs to classic and modern fiction, with topics from philosophy to public policy in between. One faculty member chose “James and the Giant Peach” and quoted author Roald Dahl’s message, “There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t even started wondering about yet.” Another wrote of his selection, “Each time I review concepts with a graduate student, I am humbled to learn from, and be inspired by, this book.”
All faculty-selected entries from 2003 through 2016 are archived and can be viewed by year and by searching a faculty member by last name on the University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition Site.
For more information about the program, contact the University Libraries Public Relations and Marketing Office at 814-863-4240.