To: General Announcements, All Colby Faculty From: rjones@colby.edu Subject: Survey on tenure perceptions I am conducting a survey concerning faculty perceptions about the tenure process at Colby. If you are a Colby tenured or tenure-track faculty member, I would greatly appreciate your responses to this survey. If you would like, you can email your answers to me at rjones@colby.edu. If you would prefer to remain anonymous, please feel free to print a hard copy and send me your answers through campus mail: Randy Jones, Computer Science Department. Feel free to leave blank any answers that you do not wish to include. Thanks in advance for your time and attention! 1. Do you currently have tenure at Colby? 2. If not, are you tenure-track faculty at Colby? 3. Have you ever served on the Promotion and Tenure committee at Colby? How recently? 4. What do you understand to be Colby's requirements for tenure with regard to teaching? Please be as specific as you can. If you don't know or are unclear on the requirements, please say so. 5. What do you understand to be Colby's requirements for tenure with regard to research? Please be as specific as you can. If you don't know or are unclear on the requirements, please say so. 6. What do you understand to be Colby's requirements for tenure with regard to service? Please be as specific as you can. If you don't know or are unclear on the requirements, please say so. 7. What do you understand to be the allowable tradeoffs and/or relative weighting of teaching, research, and service in the tenure requirements? 8. Do you understand there to be any additional issues that contribute to decisions on whether to award tenure at Colby? If so, please describe them.