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Lambert-Pennington, Katherine – Metropolitan Universities, 2016
This article explores what an uneven embrace of community engagement means for faculty as they apply for tenure and promotion. It closely examines how three faculty members (including the author) from different departments framed and discussed their engaged scholarly contributions in the presence or absence of departmental guidelines on engaged…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Promotion, Tenure, Faculty Evaluation
Barat, Somjit; Harvey, Hanafiah – Journal of Educational Issues, 2015
Tenure-track/tenured faculty at higher education institutions are expected to teach, conduct research and provide service as part of their promotion and tenure process, the relative importance of each component varying with the position and/or the university. However, based on the author's personal experience, feedback received from several…
Descriptors: Faculty Promotion, Faculty, Tenure, Colleges
National Council of Teachers of English, 2015
Digital media and work with technology has become a critical, integral part of teaching, scholarship, and service in the academy, transforming the ways faculty engage with students, conduct research, and serve their campus, local, and national communities. These guidelines--originally written in 1998 and updated in 2015--are designed to advise…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Guidelines, Higher Education
Dzwik, Leigh Settlemoir – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to assess faculty unionization's impact on academic human resource decision making for department chairs. The academic human resource decisions included in the study were: academic hiring; re-employment, promotion and tenure; other faculty evaluation decisions; and discipline and discharge. The first purpose of this…
Descriptors: Department Heads, College Faculty, Unions, Decision Making
Lakin, Amy L. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine the most fair, authentic, and reliable elements to include in a portfolio of faculty work, specifically at teaching-centered institutions. Design/methodology/approach: This paper examines and evaluates relevant literature pertaining to faculty portfolios of work and recommends portfolio formats…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Portfolios (Background Materials), Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
Tollefson-Hall, Karin; Pfeiler-Wunder, Amy; Hsieh, Kevin; Henry, Carole – Journal of Faculty Development, 2013
Four faculty members of varying rank provide insight into beginning a career as a faculty member and the tenure process based on their experiences at three distinct universities in the United States. Examples of evaluation processes and documentation of activities are provided. Institutional support systems for teaching and scholarship are…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Mentors, Faculty Evaluation
Chitpin, Stephanie – International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to utilize the Objective Knowledge Growth Framework (OKGF) to promote a better understanding of the evaluating tenure and promotion processes. Design/Methodology/Approach: A scenario is created to illustrate the concept of using OKGF. Findings: The framework aims to support decision makers in identifying the…
Descriptors: Tenure, Decision Making, Dismissal (Personnel), Guidelines
Luo, Zhongshu – Chinese Education and Society, 2014
The article analyzes the practice and experience of faculty management at the University of Pennsylvania and its implications for Chinese universities from the perspective of management systems and operation mechanisms. Recent reforms and innovation of faculty management at Sichuan University are described.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Administration, Personnel Management
Gonzales, Leslie D.; Rincones, Rodolfo – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2012
In response to the incessant calls for interdisciplinary scholarship, universities adopt initiatives and encourage faculty to collaborate across discipline lines. Yet, the literature shows that it is difficult to institutionalise such work as faculty members are heavily influenced by their discipline-bound training. When faculty do participate,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Interdisciplinary Approach, Scholarship, Higher Education
Johnston, Pattie C.; Schimmel, Tammy; O'Hara, Hunter – College Quarterly, 2012
Legal rulings have called for the inclusion of collegiality as a fourth evaluation category for university faculty. Collegiality is considered to be any extra-role behavior that represents individuals' behavior that is discretionary, not recognized by the formal reward system and that, in the aggregate, promotes the effective functioning of the…
Descriptors: Tenure, Academic Freedom, Faculty Evaluation, Institutional Evaluation
Chisholm, Mervin; Hayes, Edward J.; LaBrecque, Suzanne; Smith, Don – Journal of Faculty Development, 2011
Faculty-evaluation systems are critical to successful transformation in the culture of an institution or any division of it; but modifying the criteria and priorities that have traditionally defined the evaluation process is possible only if one understands and respects the dynamics, difficulties, trade-offs, and complexities involved, especially…
Descriptors: Faculty Evaluation, Evaluation, College Faculty, Educational Change
Acker, Sandra; Webber, Michelle; Smyth, Elizabeth – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
The focus of this article is the tenure review process in Canadian universities, a rigorous and high-stakes evaluation of junior academics that serves as a prime exemplar of "disciplining academics", our project's title. In-depth interviews in seven Ontario universities with 30 knowledgeable informants such as senior managers and faculty…
Descriptors: Tenure, Universities, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
Secret, Mary; Leisey, Monica; Lanning, Sharon; Polich, Susan; Schaub, Joseph – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
This study investigated the status of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), the amount and types of pedagogical scholarship, and the merit accorded SoTL within academic units for purposes of faculty assessment (i.e. hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions) at a research/doctoral granting institution. Responding to an electronic survey…
Descriptors: Scholarship, College Instruction, Educational Research, College Faculty
Hyon, Sunny – Applied Linguistics, 2011
This article examines a little-studied review genre of academe: letters written for faculty retention, promotion, and tenure (RPT). Given their centrally evaluative nature, these documents have potential to illuminate academic community values, particularly those related to faculty work. Of specific interest in this study is the evaluative…
Descriptors: Expertise, Tenure, Faculty Evaluation, Values
Hardre, Patricia L.; Kollmann, Sherry L. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
Expectations and how they are communicated influence employees' motivation, effort, goals, efficacy and performance. This study examined faculty performance evaluation standards and processes of 60 academic departments in research universities for motivationally relevant elements. Characteristics were systematically analysed to understand their…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Research Universities, Standards