MA3 Challenge Announces Awardees Advancing the Future of Academic Reward Systems

The Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA) in partnership with the Aspen Institute Science & Society Program and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, announced today that six universities have been awarded $250,000 as part of the inaugural Modernizing Academic Appointment & Advancement (MA3) Challenge. This new cohort of university awardees will implement bold institutional reforms to faculty hiring, evaluation, promotion, and tenure systems.