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Resources for Common Questions
The Faculty Reward System
- As a board member, president, or provost, what questions should I be asking about my institution's faculty reward system? What should I be aware of?
- We need to look at our institutional statements on promotion and tenure. What should be in these statements and do you have some good examples?
- Faculty members often set their priorities based on what is important to their disciplines and how scholarship is defined in their fields. Any help here?
- Faculty members serving on promotion and tenure committees are rarely prepared for this role. Are there any materials that would be useful?
- The faculty often finds itself hearing conflicting messages as to what is actually important. In addition to getting our documents in order, are there other things we should do?
- Is there anything for faculty members facing review?
- Where can we find out what's going on in the area of post-tenure review?
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As a board member, president, or provost, what questions should I be asking about my institution's faculty reward system? What should I be aware of?
- Resource: "Institutional Priorities and Faculty Rewards: An Administrative Checklist."
- This instrument not only provides you with a potential list of questions but provides a picture of the present system, where it is working, and where it is not. It also helps get the issues of promotion and tenure on the institutional agenda and is a good way to start.
- Resource: Ideas in Incubation: Three Possible Modifications to Traditional Tenure Policies, Richard Chait, American Association for Higher Education.
- A quick but important read. If you're considering options to tenure, this is the place to start.
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We need to look at our institutional statements on promotion and tenure. What should be in these statements and do you have some good examples?
- Resource: Developing a Quality Faculty Rewards System: The Documentation, Robert M. Diamond Ph.D., Anker Publishing Company, Inc.
- Includes chapters on getting the faculty rewards system on the institutional agenda, on mission and vision statements, and on school, college, and department policy statements. Also has a chapter on union contracts. Examples from all types of institutions.
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Faculty members often set their priorities based on what is important to their disciplines and how scholarship is defined in their fields. Any help here?
- Resource: The Disciplines Speak (volumes I and II), Robert M. Diamond and Bronwyn E. Adam, editors, American Association for Higher Education.
- These two volumes contain statements on how scholarly work is defined in over twenty-five disciplines. Most importantly, the statements tend to expand the scope of scholarship to include course and curriculum design, software development, and innovation in teaching.
- Resource: Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, Ernest L. Boyer, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
- Provides a paradigm that recognizes the full range of scholarly work of faculty. The book that got "expanding the definition of scholarship" on the national agenda.
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Faculty members serving on promotion and tenure committees are rarely prepared for this role. Are there any materials that would be useful?
- Resource: Serving on Promotion and Tenure Committees: A Faculty Guide, Robert M. Diamond Ph.D., Anker Publishing Company, Inc.
- Spells out the role of the committee, the information it should provide candidates, and the issues it should address.
- Resources: Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate, Charles Glassick, Mary Taylor Huber, and Gene Maeroff, Jossey-Bass.
- Provides a model for describing and documenting scholarly work.
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The faculty often finds itself hearing conflicting messages as to what is actually important. In addition to getting our institutional documents in order, are there other things we should do?
- Resources: Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe, William G. Tierney and Estela Mara Bensimon, State University of New York Press.
- Addresses the issues of support and consistency through the recruitment, hiring, and orientation process. Emphasis is on building community.
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Is there anything for faculty members facing review?
- Resource: Preparing for Promotion and Tenure Review: A Faculty Guide, Robert M. Diamond Ph.D., Anker Publishing Company, Inc.
- Provides recommendations on the questions to ask, the data to collect, and the preparation of a professional portfolio.
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Where can we find out what's going on in the area of post-tenure review?
- Resource: Contact Christine Licata at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the lead person in AAHE's project: New Pathways: Faculty Careers and Employment for the 21st Century.
- Resource: Post-Tenure Review: A Guide Book for Academic Administrators of Colleges and Schools of Business, Joseph Morreale and Christine Licata, AACSB: The International Association for Management Education.
- Don't let the title fool you. Many of the materials in this book are relevant to all the disciplines. The introductory section is excellent.
