So What Does His eHarmony Profile Say?

An old friend recently shared with me the lamentable proceedings of the tenure committee at his institution. He noted that the No. 1 issue, in most cases, was collegiality, even though the tenure process only lists teaching, service, and research as criteria for consideration.

“I’m starting to wonder,” he said, “if we should start integrating our faculty application process with eHarmony, so that we can just use personality profiles when tenure and promotion roll around.”

Should collegiality be the fourth criterion in our personnel decisions?