Faculty Evaluation of Administrators

• Published in: Academe Vol. 92; no. 5; pp. 101 - 108
• Main Authors: Poston, Lawrence S., Clough, Marshall S., Moore, Robert K., Kreiser, B. Robert
• Format: Magazine Article Trade Publication Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington American Association of University Professors 01.09.2006
• Subjects: Academic freedom; Administrator Evaluation; Appointments & personnel changes; Boards of directors; College Administration; Colleges; Committees; Community Relations; Educational administration; Expertise; Faculty Evaluation; Governance; Governing Boards; Higher education; Human resources; Peer review; Principles; Public administration; Review committees; School campuses; Student Surveys; Teacher Evaluation; Teaching Methods; Tenure; Universities; University administration
• ISSN: 0190-2946; 2162-5247
• DOI: 10.2307/40253501

In the interim between that report and now, the Association's staff collected a variety of sample instruments and policy statements on which the present subcommittee, appointed at the end of 2005, has drawn.1 The subcommittee had before it documents from seven public flagship campuses, eight other slate colleges or universities either part of a larger system or with a stand-alone identity (such as those with historic teacher-training missions), one statewide faculty senate, a large public urban college, a medical center, two liberal arts colleges, a midsize private university, and a Canadian university. [...] rooted in Association policy is the principle that faculty members are officers of their institutions, not employees, and ;is officers (a term that first appeared in the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure) their expertise is both an indelible part of a full and fair evaluation and a positive service to relevant administrators and to the institution's governing hoard.