Call for Testimony for Tenure and Promotion Evaluations
Due Wednesday, December 17
Community Testimony for Faculty Evaluations
Who can submit? All members of the Bard community are encouraged to participate in the faculty evaluation process by submitting written testimony. Faculty members, staff, students, and alumni all have valuable perspectives that help carry out a more thorough assessment of the people up for review.
Format? Testimony may be submitted in many ways -- as a memo; as a letter; as a few lines of comment; even as a quick post. The important thing is that the readers get a sense of your experience with, or assessment of the works of, the person being evaluated. The testimony should be signed (electronic signature will be accepted) and sent to the Office of the Dean of the College; it cannot be submitted anonymously.
Content? Testimony should respond to the three categories of evaluation: teaching, research, and service to the community.
Who reads testimony? Testimony goes into what is called the “closed file.” Letters are confidential and will not be read by the evaluatee. Readers do include the Divisional Chairs and Divisional Evaluators, faculty members who make use of community testimony, among other documents, for a report that summarizes the content of the open and closed files. The authors of any testimony quoted are not identified. This report is distributed to the faculty in the division with which the person evaluated is affiliated. The Faculty Evaluation Review Committee (FERC), the College Evaluation Committee (CEC), the Dean of the College, and the President of the College also read the original materials in the closed files, where the testimony is kept.
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Call for Testimony for 2025-2026 Evaluations:
All members of the College community, and especially tenure-line and regular non-tenure track faculty members in the immediate programs of a faculty member being evaluated, are invited and encouraged to submit signed written testimony concerning faculty members being evaluated.
The dean of the college solicits written testimony from all segments of the Bard community and requests that all such testimony be sent to the Office of the Dean of the College. Evaluatees should not solicit testimony on their own behalf from current or former members of the Bard community.
If you would like to submit a letter to the evaluation file of a faculty member scheduled to be evaluated this year, it should be signed and sent campus mail to the Office of the Dean of the College or via e-mail as an attachment with electronic signature to [email protected] by Wednesday, December 17.
TENURE EVALUATION
PROMOTION EVALUATION
*tenure/promotion evaluation testimony is read by the divisional evaluators, the division chair, the Faculty Evaluation Review Committee (FERC), the dean of the college, and the president.
Who can submit? All members of the Bard community are encouraged to participate in the faculty evaluation process by submitting written testimony. Faculty members, staff, students, and alumni all have valuable perspectives that help carry out a more thorough assessment of the people up for review.
Format? Testimony may be submitted in many ways -- as a memo; as a letter; as a few lines of comment; even as a quick post. The important thing is that the readers get a sense of your experience with, or assessment of the works of, the person being evaluated. The testimony should be signed (electronic signature will be accepted) and sent to the Office of the Dean of the College; it cannot be submitted anonymously.
Content? Testimony should respond to the three categories of evaluation: teaching, research, and service to the community.
Who reads testimony? Testimony goes into what is called the “closed file.” Letters are confidential and will not be read by the evaluatee. Readers do include the Divisional Chairs and Divisional Evaluators, faculty members who make use of community testimony, among other documents, for a report that summarizes the content of the open and closed files. The authors of any testimony quoted are not identified. This report is distributed to the faculty in the division with which the person evaluated is affiliated. The Faculty Evaluation Review Committee (FERC), the College Evaluation Committee (CEC), the Dean of the College, and the President of the College also read the original materials in the closed files, where the testimony is kept.
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Call for Testimony for 2025-2026 Evaluations:
All members of the College community, and especially tenure-line and regular non-tenure track faculty members in the immediate programs of a faculty member being evaluated, are invited and encouraged to submit signed written testimony concerning faculty members being evaluated.
The dean of the college solicits written testimony from all segments of the Bard community and requests that all such testimony be sent to the Office of the Dean of the College. Evaluatees should not solicit testimony on their own behalf from current or former members of the Bard community.
If you would like to submit a letter to the evaluation file of a faculty member scheduled to be evaluated this year, it should be signed and sent campus mail to the Office of the Dean of the College or via e-mail as an attachment with electronic signature to [email protected] by Wednesday, December 17.
TENURE EVALUATION
| Evaluatee | Division/Program |
| Thomas Hutcheon | SMC/Psychology |
| Tanya Marcuse | ARTS/Photography |
| Daniel Williams | L&L/Literature |
PROMOTION EVALUATION
| Evaluatee | Division/Program |
| Paul Cadden-Zimansky | SMC/Physics |
*tenure/promotion evaluation testimony is read by the divisional evaluators, the division chair, the Faculty Evaluation Review Committee (FERC), the dean of the college, and the president.
Faculty Evaluation Electronic Sharing
The Office of the Dean of the College facilitates all faculty evaluations using Interfolio (Review, Promotion and Tenure or RPT) in accordance with the evaluation process and procedures as outlined in the Faculty Handbook.
What is Interfolio Review, Promotion & Tenure?
Interfolio Review, Promotion & Tenure is an online system for carrying out formal faculty reviews in a shared governance context (including pretenure, tenure, promotion, non-tenure-track evaluations, and senior reviews), built to help academic institutions ensure that these processes are secure, transparent, equitable, efficient, and well documented.
Materials for those up for evaluation will be shared across the divisions to ensure access for all before testimony is received by the Office of the Dean of the College and as faculty prepare for divisional discussions. Electronic sharing does not replace hard copy files, they are still available to review in person, by appointment only - please email Rachel Price, [email protected], to schedule a time-slot.
What is Interfolio Review, Promotion & Tenure?
Interfolio Review, Promotion & Tenure is an online system for carrying out formal faculty reviews in a shared governance context (including pretenure, tenure, promotion, non-tenure-track evaluations, and senior reviews), built to help academic institutions ensure that these processes are secure, transparent, equitable, efficient, and well documented.
Materials for those up for evaluation will be shared across the divisions to ensure access for all before testimony is received by the Office of the Dean of the College and as faculty prepare for divisional discussions. Electronic sharing does not replace hard copy files, they are still available to review in person, by appointment only - please email Rachel Price, [email protected], to schedule a time-slot.
Website links for Interfolio resources and videos:
Product Help Center
Quick help articles to guide you through specific tasks: product-help.interfolio.com
Scholar Services
Call, email, or chat with our Scholar Services team
Phone: (877) 997-8807, 9am - 6pm EST
Email: [email protected]
Quick help articles to guide you through specific tasks: product-help.interfolio.com
Scholar Services
Call, email, or chat with our Scholar Services team
Phone: (877) 997-8807, 9am - 6pm EST
Email: [email protected]