Because of the end of mandatory retirement for faculty in January 1994, colleges and universities are looking at ways to motivate faculty to retire before age 70. A variety of incentives are being considered, including early retirement bonuses, allowing retirees to teach courses and keep a campus office, and toughening tenure evaluations. (MSE)

Suggests that although the assault on tenure championed by the American Association for Higher Education's New Pathways Project has failed, there are more serious threats to tenure in the development of systems of "post-tenure review," and in the increased the use of "contingent," or part-time and non-tenure-track full-time,…

Twenty-five profiles of college and university programs using teaching portfolios to evaluate faculty are presented to illustrate how portfolio use relates to institutional context and purposes of evaluation. An introductory section makes observations about the profiles in general and highlights some issues emerging during preparation of the…

An overview is provided of Sumter Area Technical College's (SATC's) successful faculty evaluation and merit pay plan. Following introductory material on SATC, a discussion is presented of the reasoning behind resistance to efforts to tie faculty evaluation to merit pay. Next, SATC's evaluation system is set in the context of the college's overall…

A program linking merit pay and faculty evaluation was initiated at Sumter Area Technical College (SATC) in Sumter, South Carolina, in 1978. The performance-based evaluation system focuses on three elements: the job description, which identifies professional responsibilities and how they relate to the college's mission; the individual action plan;…

Guidelines for colleges concerning the privacy of employee records are presented in two policy statements. Institutional policy should minimize intrusiveness, maximize fairness, and create legitimate expectations of confidentiality. In addition to strengthening professional equity of treatment, confidentiality permits consideration of both adverse…

This package of procedures and forms for the review of academic library directors includes two background papers as well as evaluation materials used by 14 members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). These materials, which include both library-specific and university-wide reviews of administrative personnel and/or faculty, were…

The objectives and techniques of faculty evaluation are examined. It is suggested that the reasons for the evaluation process play a significant role in how such evaluations are perceived by all involved and how successful the process will be in reaching the objectives of the evaluation process. Four specific competencies that can be evaluated…

The addition of a clinical component to formal legal education is discussed, along with a proposal to upgrade the status of clinical faculty. Attention is directed to the history of efforts by the practicing bar to influence the scope and methods of legal education, the controversy over a proposed equality-of-treatment standard, and the future of…

This in-progress program and resource study presents an actual case study in developing an alternative to tenure. The College of St. Francis implemented during the 1979-80 academic year an alternative system, the Three Year Rolling Contract. It stated that all faculty members have academic freedom under any form of appointment; upon appointment as…

The master contract between the San Joaquin Delta College Teachers Association/CTA/NEA and the Board of Trustees of the San Joaquin Delta Community College District for July 1977 to June 1980 is presented in full. Thirty articles include: Agreement, Recognition, Definitions, Negotiation Procedures, Non-Discrimination, Association Rights,…

Reviews general facets of performance appraisal pointing out the similarities and differences in methods and instruments used to assess the performance of administrative, academic, and nonacademic personnel. Relates the concepts of merit pay and tenure to performance appraisal. (DMM)

Provides abstracts and citations for six documents from the ERIC collection dealing with part-time community college faculty. Specific issues addressed include legislation and employment, institutional practices, staff handbooks and manuals, professional development, and evaluation. (JP)

A recent Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching report counters the conventional wisdom in academe that faculty research must be evaluated by standards different from those of teaching and service, maintaining that the different types of faculty work have much in common and must be judged similarly if teaching and service are to gain…

A study of the University of Melbourne (Australia) mandatory annual faculty evaluation program after its second year of operation is reported. Results revealed some faculty uncertainty about the plan's intentions and tensions between its summative and formative purposes. Some positive outcomes were identified, but too few to claim the plan was…