Fairly Evaluating Faculty

Like any human decision-making process, faculty evaluation is prone to unconscious bias and irrational outcomes. Most research and scholarship on equity in faculty evaluation focuses on reforming policies (e.g., the criteria used to evaluate candidates). This brief draws on the research on enhancing fairness in organizational decision-making and examines the key practices that evaluation committee members can use to increase fairness and inclusiveness in their evaluation processes at the moment. It is intended to complement policy reform efforts.