Academic departments should beware of "the tyranny of the monograph," and consider projects like translations and electronic publications in making hiring and tenure decisions, a Modern Language Association panel said in a much-anticipated report. The report gives a thorough historical analysis of "the shifting nature of academic work over the past decades." It lays out the well-known financial pressures on university presses and the ever-increasing demands for teaching and publication faced by junior faculty members as they navigate "changes in the resources for disseminating scholarship," including digital media. It also declares that while those factors, along with changes in educational policies, have brought the profession to "a threshold moment," the situation has not yet reached a crisis. The report states that faculty members hired to tenure-track appointments over the last 10 years have been tenured in ways--and at rates--similar to their predecessors. There has, to date, been no "lost generation of scholars" from the tenure track. The report also offers 20 broad recommendations to improve hiring and tenure practices, including a call for "transparency throughout the tenuring process."