Improving Promotion and Tenure Practices: Evaluation Criteria Scenario

Question Title

Review the following Promotion and Tenure scenario and select the correct answer based on the insight gained from the Increasing Women in Neuroscience course. This question was adapted from the University of California, Irvine ADVANCE Program and the National Science Foundation under award SBE: -0123682

Susan, a newly hired faculty member coming from a different university system, was appointed to an associate professor position. Until this appointment, she had no experience with the policies of her current institution. She is asked to write an evaluation of another member of the faculty whom she does not know well.

Which of the following is the most important thing for Susan to do first?

Ask other faculty members with more experience in the department for their opinion of the person being evaluated.

Obtain all available materials that describe the criteria by which a member of her department is supposed to be evaluated.

Have a one-on-one meeting with the person being evaluated to get to know him better.

Read all of the faculty member’s published work to assess the quality of his research.