Annual faculty merit evaluations: rewarding productivity, or forcing mediocrity?
As with many university administrations, ours is deeply concerned with faculty productivity. There’s a prevailing attitude among upper administrators and, apparently, our Board of Trustees, that surely there are many faculty somewhere on campus not doing their jobs, especially in terms of research. Accordingly, the administration insisted on several principles in our contracts: continuing to have… More Annual faculty merit evaluations: rewarding productivity, or forcing mediocrity?