IMD 4.002 Internal Management Directive on Post-Tenure Review

Recognizing that the quality of higher education is inextricably tied to the quality of faculty, the Board reaffirms its commitment to tenure, academic freedom, and maintaining an environment that supports sustained performance in teaching, research, and service. Further, the Board recognizes the rigorous, multi-year process to which probationary faculty submit prior to the awarding of tenure, as well as the numerous ways in which tenured faculty performance is reviewed thereafter (e.g., student ratings of instruction peer review of scholarly work, competitive sponsored research grants, juried exhibits and artistic performance. Nevertheless, for the purposes of more comprehensive review after tenure has been conferred and in accordance with the purpose stated in OAR 580-021-0140 each institution shall develop post-tenure review guidelines, which shall be filed with the Chancellor's Office. Institutional guidelines shall include, but not be limited to:

(1) a statement of post-tenure review guidelines;
(2) a statement of criteria to be used in evaluation, the nature and kinds of data that will be accumulated, and the methods of data collection;
(3) a designation of person making evaluation;
(4) a designation of frequency and regularity of evaluation;
(5) a description of the institutional plan for relation post-tenure reviews to the faculty reward system so that annual salary-adjustment decisions (i.e., increase, no increase, decrease) will reflect the result of performance evaluations;
(6) a description of appropriate formative opportunities (e.g., professional development plan, faculty career support program [IMD 4.001]);
(7) a description of the institutional plan to deal firmly but humanely with situations in which a faculty member's competence of vitality have diminished to such an extent that formative opportunities are unable to sufficiently stimulate or assist the faculty member's return to a fully effective state. Any personnel actions for cause shall be implemented in accordance with OARs 580-021-0320 through 580-021-0470.