Evaluation and Decision Making in Higher Education

Abstract

In this chapter, we propose evaluation and decision-making as activities which, properly reconstructed from conventional norms, can be leveraged to change who and what receives access, opportunities, recognition, and status in higher educa- tion. We critically review seminal perspectives on faculty evaluation and deci- sion-making, advance a new framework for equitable evaluation and decision- making in higher education, and consider the relevance of this framework in four functional areas of faculty practice: admission of graduate students, hiring, peer review, and curriculum and instruction.