At the crossroads: Bringing the tenure and promotion process into the Digital Age

Abstract

Over the past two years, Grand Valley State University (GVSU) faculty librarians have been looking for ways to improve the portfolio process for personnel reviews. The personnel review system at GVSU is such that all unit faculty members are responsible for reviewing colleagues’ portfolios and voting on their reappointments, tenure decisions, and promotions, meaning all tenured and tenure-track librarians must carve out a significant amount of time for this each year.

Traditionally, these portfolios have taken the format of one printed copy, available in the libraries dean’s office, for review by one individual at a time. Since GVSU has libraries . . .