University Of Wisconsin Gives Administrators Final Say Over Five-Year Post-Tenure Reviews; Underperforming Faculty Will Be Placed In Remediation Program, Leading To Termination If Performance Does Not Improve
The latest change calls for faculty performance evaluations, which are generally done by other professors, to include an “independent, substantive review” of the faculty member by a dean, provost or chancellor. That administrator would then make the “final assignment … reflecting the overall results of the review,” according to the policy.
A review that finds a professor is not meeting expectations would lead to a remediation process, and if the faculty member does not improve he or she could be fired. …
