Wednesday, January 26, 2000
NKU considers faculty review
Regents to decide on post-tenure plan
BY ANDREA TORTORA
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS — Faculty at Northern Kentucky University could face a new review policy after they gain tenure and regulations that govern ownership of “intellectual property.”
The Board of Regents will consider both policies at its regular meeting today.
The measures have strong faculty support and were approved by the Faculty Senate in December.
“As a faculty, we have taken a leadership role in the commonwealth,” said Gaut Ragsdale, Faculty Senate president. “The faculty deserves praise for stepping up and saying we are going to police ourselves.”
Here's what the policies would do:
• Post-tenure review provides for a committee evaluation of a faculty member who receives unsatisfactory reviews two years in a row.
A department chair can present a faculty member's case to the committee. If the committee agrees that the faculty member's reviews were rightfully negative, it will create a professional development plan for the faculty member.
The plan will include specific goals and activities, as well as a time line for completing those recommendations.
Regular meetings with the faculty member and the committee will also occur. If the committee is satisfied with the faculty member's improvements, he or she will have finished the development plan.
If the committee thinks the suggested action was not followed or was not successful, the university can begin a dismissal process.
Rogers Redding, vice president for academic affairs, said the policy is modeled after one at the University of Kentucky.
“Post-tenure review is becoming more common as people within the university are concerned in a general way that there is no systematic process for the review of faculty members once they achieve tenure,” Dr. Redding said.
Barry Andersen, faculty regent, said the policy was born when the state legislature talked of creating a statewide post-tenure review law.
“There is the sense that faculty members can goof off for the rest of their professional life once they receive tenure,” Mr. Andersen said.
Mr. Andersen said NKU faculty decided to create their own policy rather than have one imposed on them.
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