By what criteria should the faculty member, Chair, and Dean review annual performance?
The Rank and Tenure Policy Statement summarizes the basic criteria for successful teaching, scholarship, and service in its description of criteria for tenure, where a tenured faculty member “must first and foremost have displayed commitment to the philosophy, values, and objectives of the College” (Rank and Tenure Policy Statement 4.5). These policies are complemented by the description of professional responsibilities in the Faculty Handbook on teaching, scholarship, and service (V.). Finally, the Rank and Tenure Policy Statement stipulates that it “is the responsibility of each department to agree on instruments or criteria whereby the effectiveness of the members of that department can be judged” (Rank and Tenure Policy Statement 4.5). All departments have their particular ways of evaluating themselves, written down and periodically revised; the Dean regularly encourages Chairs to review their own standards in the light of their aspirations as well as the standards of other departm
