6/2/2014
Post-tenure review can be framed as a process of discussion and reflection among peers. Viewed through this lens, post-tenure review enriches faculty by encouraging ongoing professional development. At Westmont College, the review process builds connections and camaraderie among faculty. "All of us like to learn how to enrich what we do and we like having affirmation about what's going well" and like finding strategies to address what's not going so well. In contrast, Ball State and Suffolk Universities recently announced post-tenure review processes that identify unsatisfactory faculty performance and can lead to termination. Framed this way, post-tenure review stimulates controversy, rather than comraderie.