Faculty Evaluation of Administrators: The Experience of Brooklyn College.

Abstract

For a good many years much attention has been given to the evaluation of teachers and scholars, yet, despite growing faculty interest in the question, little has been said about the evaluation of administrators. Over the past three and a half years a faculty committee for the evaluation of administrators has been functioning at Brooklyn College, one of the largest units of the City University of New York. As one of the few such bodies in existence, its operations have attracted interest, but as yet no account of its work has been written. The process of establishing the committee was beset with difficulties; determination of its composition and mandate required long discussion and complex negotiation; definition of its procedures was not easy, and the committee continues to wrestle with the problem of clarifying its goal and methodology and of assessing the impact of its work. An account of the experiences of the committee may prove useful to faculty on other campuses who are seeking to define their own rights and responsibilities with relation to those of the administrators with whom they work.