This chapter considers the limitations of traditional faculty assessment systems in the context of Boyers' four domains of scholarship and suggests a new organizing template for realigning assessment systems to accommodate work in all four domains. (EV)

This chapter places debates on the place of scholarship of teaching and learning in promotion and tenure decisions in the context of "Scholarship Reconsidered" and "Scholarship Assessed," and reports on cases of faculty who have used the scholarship of teaching and learning to advance their academic careers. (EV)

This chapter translates the recommendations made in the issue's previous chapters to inform departmental and college personnel decisions, particularly promotion and tenure. (EV)

Asserts that systematic reform is necessary to allow for an acceptance of and emphasis on outreach performance as an area of faculty work critical to faculty and institutional growth and development. Describes efforts to legitimize and evaluate outreach. (EV)

Suggests that targeted, action-oriented institutional research can help a college or university better understand and more effectively use faculty resources. Profiles a multi-campus research university whose institutional research portfolio has emphasized faculty issues. (EV)

Among the varied analytical challenges institutional researchers face, examining faculty pay may be one of the most vexing. Although the literature on faculty compensation analysis dates back to the 1970s (Loeb and Ferber, 1971; Gordon, Morton, and Braden, 1974; Scott, 1977; Braskamp and Johnson, 1978; McLaughlin, Smart, and Montgomery, 1978),…

Traditional ideas about improving teaching should be augmented by new understandings of faculty self-perception and motivation. At the National Center for Research to Improve Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, professors have been interviewed to determine if faculty hold beliefs about an institution that influence their behavior. (MLW)

Explores how technological changes facilitate communication and decision making, but add to faculty members' workload as they struggle to stay current in the vast amount of new and reconfigured information. Asserts that the use of these technologies also adds to increasing influence of professional administrators and technical specialists over…

Discusses a systems theory of evaluation that provides a framework and critical indicators for evaluating effectiveness of Web-mediated faculty work in creating and transferring knowledge. (EV)

Measurement of faculty research performance is multidimensional, and no single type of measure can assess the full range of professional role performance. A variety of subjective and quantitative measures and weighting systems should be used together to minimize bias. (MSE)

Asserts that faculty work frequently involves joint production of teaching and research, teaching and service, or research and service. Explores how assessing joint production of teaching, research, and outreach may benefit faculty and institutions, and suggests specific methods for evaluating the extent and nature of integrated faculty work. (EV)

Discusses the employment conditions and levels of satisfaction of the increasing numbers of full- and part-time college faculty members ineligible for tenure. Recommends extension of academic freedom, a reasonable amount of job security for all faculty, inclusion of tenure-ineligible faculty members in governance, and basing faculty rewards and…

When institutional personnel assess faculty research performance, they should consider the extent to which the institution rewards research, ways to encourage faculty to be productive, criteria for evaluating research performance, and the specific steps useful in reviewing research performance within academic units. (Author/MSE)

Social Judgment Analysis, a formal decision model, is used to develop a decision support system that provides documentation on faculty accomplishments to assist faculties in making personnel decisions that are systematic, explicit, consistent, and retraceable. (Author/MSE)

A wide variety of individual and contextual factors, within and outside institutional control, can affect faculty research performance. These collective factors, the research culture, include policies and practices affecting recruitment, workload, evaluation, collegial communication, leadership, and structure. (MSE)