A. Request a Summary of the Evaluation in Writing

Written documentation of criticisms raised about your work is necessary to judge their validity. If these claims are invalid, written documentation is further necessary for competent counter argument. Unfortunately, you can be so shocked by a decision to deny tenure and so uninformed of your rights that you fail to request a written summary of the evaluation. In one case, a woman was told that the review committee was not planning to recommend her for tenure and that she should plan to secure employment elsewhere. She did so, unaware of her rights. Subsequent to her departure, the department was investigated for its past failure to tenure any of its women faculty (Anonymous, personal communication, October, 1990).