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Impacts of the Implementation of a Strict Post-Tenure Review Policy on University Faculty

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Portland, Oregon

Publication Date

June 23, 2024

Start Date

June 23, 2024

End Date

July 12, 2024

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

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Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP)

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John R. Reisel P.E. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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Dr. John R. Reisel is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). He conducts research in engineering education, energy utilization, combustion, and air pollution. He also serves as the Secretary of the University at UWM.

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Abstract

Recently there have been renewed attempts across the United States to introduce new or more-comprehensive post-tenure review policies. These efforts revive memories of the efforts undertaken in Wisconsin in 2015-16 to enact strict post-tenure review policies. The Wisconsin policies require faculty to undergo a comprehensive review at least every five years after receiving tenure. The reviews began in 2017, and as a result one full set of reviews should be complete, with some faculty scheduled for a second post-tenure review.

In this paper, the impacts of comprehensive post-tenure review at one institution in the University of Wisconsin System are reviewed and analyzed. While it is difficult to determine how the post-tenure review policy impacted the behavior or decisions of individual faculty members, a general idea of how the campus faculty as a whole have been affected can be formed. Briefly, the impacts of the productivity of the campus faculty due to comprehensive post-tenure review have been small.

In addition to the analysis of the impacts of post-tenure review, observations on how the process has been implemented are made in the paper. The process that was created relies heavily on faculty participation and decision-making, and as a result there has been little influence on the process from administrators or external actors. This has also led to a need for faculty to monitor how they approach the process and their need to maintain the integrity of the review process.

Reisel, J. R. (2024, June), Impacts of the Implementation of a Strict Post-Tenure Review Policy on University Faculty Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/47571

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