The Chronicle of Higher Education Review (2/11/05) published an article on“Collaborative Efforts: Promoting Interdisciplinary Scholars ” by Stephanie L.

“Creative research and teaching increasingly occur at the junction between tra-ditional disciplines. As a result, many colleges and universities have committed themselves to fostering interdisciplinary scholarship. But the scholars who work at that junction are confronted with conventional departmental hiring, review, and tenure procedures that are not suited to interdisciplinary work and can slow or block the progress of their careers.” The Honors Program at the University of New Mexico has nine full-time faculty members. It is important that full-time faculty dedicated to Honors edu-cation should have equal privileges as other faculty on campus in terms of their careers. The best way to accomplish this goal was to establish hiring, review, tenure, and promotion processes for faculty in the Honors Program. The process for UNM’s University Honors Program faculty had to be created so that it would observe criteria for other faculty on campus and, at the same time, include principles for interdisciplinary work. For the most part, the process has worked although some of the expectations are more encompassing than thos