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The Center for Public Anthropology recently issued a 

 83rd overall out of 94 universities in how much its faculty in the social sciences communicates with the public through the news media.

It scanned 6,000 news sources over a five-year period to see how often each of the 13,000 faculty members studied were cited. It calculated the average citations per professor for each university and then compared that to the amount of federal funding each campus received.

Broken down, here's how five University of Minnesota departments ranked:

 of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 

(You can see a full list of faculty and how they rated 

Officials from the center say it raises some key questions, mainly:

1) How much does public funding obligate faculty members to share their insights with the public at large?

2) When making decisions about tenure and promotion, should universities assess a professor's total impact by including his or her citations in the news media?

Emory University professor George J. Armelagos 

that having faculty members in the news media can draw attention to their departments.

But he explains why faculty engagement isn't higher:

 adds another reason given by Tufts University professor Daniel W. Drezner:

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