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Bias Tidbits Multidisciplinary Work A forthcoming paper in the American Journal of Evaluation by Irwin Feller discusses the issues, noting that in disciplines where research is “problem oriented” such as engineering, multidisciplinary research may be viewed more positively than in many science disciplines (including social sciences) where research issues tend to be more structured along methodological lines. Bias Tidbits Service There appears to be a dichotomy in the inequity of committee assignments of women and other minorities in academia. On the one hand, these faculty members often assume a higher service responsibility; yet on the other hand they tend to be underrepresented on more important committees, especially at the senior level. “Women do more service than men (Carnegie Foundation 1990)”, “although at low decision-making levels (Bagihole 1993.)” Bias Tidbits Mentoring and Guidance Virginia Valian [2] describes a long-term program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to deal with bias against women on the faculty of medicine. Some findings were that women were put up for promotion later than men, and they received lower salaries. Reasons for this included evaluators failing to identify qualified women and women not knowing the criteria for promotion. Mentors of males were more likely to pass useful information than mentors of females. Mentors invited males to chair conferences six times as often as females. Meetings held in evenings and weekends were a significant bias identified in the study. Bias Tidbits Committee Assignments Women and ethnic minorities are often asked to serve as advisors to women and minority students, raising their advising loads considerably; and they are often asked to serve as token representatives of their groups on university committees. These tasks divert time from scholarly productivity and are not rewarded in ways that support the careers of those who serve [1]. Bias Tidbits Co-authorship Findings of re