The key thing worth remembering is that post tenure review is an attempt to render the idea of tenure meaningless by attacking its Achilles Heel, a strategy which is working very well. What we should be arguing is not that dead wood among the faculty should keep their jobs, but rather those procedures for getting rid of them already exist and that we simply require the guts to use them on our departmental peers. However, I am not sanguine that we are going to mount such a defense, for the path of least resistance everywhere seems to be to find a comfortable position before the inevitable takes place. Case Studies in How Not to Manage. A panel discussion on post-tenure review will follow.
Registration is free, and the meeting is open to the public.
In last September's AAUP ISU chapter newsletter, we emphasized the need for the university to revise several aspects of its sexual harassment policies. The Faculty Senate has been asked to consider these proposed changes, and we are hopeful that they will be taken under advisement in the near future. The guidance replaces the draft guidance dated October 4, 1996. We are pleased, for example, that the guidance includes recognition of academic freedom and free speech rights as well as the need for due process for those accused of harassment. Recent events confirm that Iowa State University needs to correct its sexual harassment policy to include an explicit protocol for due process.