Post Tenure Review Resolution

Presented November 19, 1999;  Passed November 19, 1999

WHEREAS the Faculty Senate believes that the current system of annual performance reviews already provides an adequate system of assessing the performance of tenured faculty; and

WHEREAS the Faculty Senate believes that an overwhelming majority of the tenured faculty at the University of Southern Mississippi is not only meeting but exceeding University standards in teaching, research and service; and

WHEREAS the Faculty Senate is deeply concerned about the potential for "post tenure review" to compromise the twin foundations of the tenure system:  1)  academic freedom and 2) due process in personnel actions which places the burdon on the institution to establish grounds for termination;

The Senate considers the IHL mandate to implement post tenure review as unnecessary, but is cooperating in the developmnet of such a review process with the sole aim of insuring that the principles of tenure are not violated.

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