How much research at your institution, for tenure?

[larryc]

Generally, tenure requires 3 peer-reviewed articles or a book at my institution.

A really nice and perhaps unique thing we have is that each faculty member writes a plan on how to get tenure. That plan is then negotiated with the department and then the administration, but once everyone accepts the plan it is a binding contract. When someone goes up for tenure the *only* permitted question is whether that person met the teaching, research and service goals in the plan. There are broad guidelines as to what should go into the plan but also a lot of discretion.

So when I was hired to do public and digital history I wrote a plan that weighed collaborative public and digital projects as the equivalent of articles and books.

[Bede the Vulnerable]

(Humanities--R1)  A book from a "major university press" for tenure.  That is rather vague, of course.  Or, as I like to think of it, it gives everyone a degree of flexibility.  There is no list of what counts, but I should be safe.