Inside Higher Ed: Rare Performance Review Do-Over
Middlebury College’s faculty committee that makes recommendations about colleagues’ pre-tenure reappointments recently took the rare step of reversing itself. The case not only put the institution’s review system under the microscope, but it also highlights the tricky issue of assessing professors with an interdisciplinary focus.
Earlier this academic year, the reappointments committee recommended to the college’s president that the contract of Laurie Essig, an assistant professor of sociology, not be renewed. As it does in all such cases, the three-professor panel observed Essig in the classroom and consulted with the head of sociology and anthropology, her “home” department.
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