Is It Worth Revisiting Faculty Evaluation?

Faculty evaluation is an old subject that never seems to go away. New volumes on evaluation continue to appear and articles are found with regularity in periodicals for university administrators. In addition, conferences for chairs usually present a number of sessions on this topic. Books would not be published, articles would neither be written nor accepted, and conference sessions would not be held unless they were purchased, read, or heavily attended, respectively. Thus, there is a continuing appetite for information on this topic.