October 1, 1999

Report Criticizes Consideration of Collegiality in Tenure Reviews

Teaching, research, and service are the traditional triumvirate in faculty evaluations. But a new report from the American Association of University Professors says that all too often, professors are using a fourth criterion for judging their peers: collegiality.

The report, published in the September/October issue of the association's magazine, Academe, calls that development "highly unfortunate" and says that "an absence of collegiality ought never, by

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