Post-Tenure Review: What Matters to Faculty

Post-tenure review has been studied primarily as an administrative issue in higher education; less attention has been given to empirically examining the underlying assumptions of faculty regarding this phenomenon. By surveying a representative sample of over 400 instructional faculty at two research universities, this study contributes to what is known about faculty beliefs and values regarding post-tenure review in the context of organizational culture. Implications for further exploration of the culture of the academy are included.