January 16, 2009

Selecting Outside Evaluators

By DAVID D. PERLMUTTER

What steps can tenure candidates take to increase the odds of a fair external review?

For full and associate professors, the end of the first semester is usually the time when we finish writing evaluation letters for tenure candidates at other campuses. Of all the service duties of the modern tenured academic, acting as an outside reviewer is the most challenging. We sit in judgment of some candidate about whom we either know quite a lot (and thus have pre-existing prejudices about

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