Going
Paperless
(ALMOST)
Bentley University turns to a familiar
tool���Blackboard���to convert its once
paper-laden promotion and tenure
review process to an electronic format.
BY CHARLES HADLOCK, MARY JO SANZ, AND DUNCAN SPELMAN
T
he promotion and tenure process determines who will serve
on the faculty over the long term to implement a university���s
mission in both scholarship and teaching. It���s no surprise,
then, that universities expend considerable effort evaluating candidates for promotion and tenure, generating mountains of paperwork
and creating overly complicated protocols for evaluators to follow.
But what if we could simplify that process? At Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, we have moved to electronic
management of promotion and tenure applications. We���ve found
that electronic processing not only saves time, but also generates a
higher quality of information. Better yet, it can be done with tools
a university may already have in place.
BizEd March/April 2013
47
