ABSTRACT
Publish or perish” became a hackneyed phrase many years ago. Faculty spoke it more in jest than in seriousness, for they knew that most of their colleagues wrote little or nothing and still survived to live out their academic career. Today, however, publishing has replaced teaching as the principal faculty role in universities and has become an increasingly important criterion for promotion, tenure, and career success in four-year colleges. More faculty are publishing more articles and books in a mushrooming mass of journals and presses.
