One of most concerned and even controversial policies which have initiated in the American campuses in the recent ten years is post-tenure review policy or tenured faculty performance evaluation.

• 美国近十多年来启动的许多大学管理政策中，引起广泛关注甚至激烈论争的政策之一是 对终身制教授的评估，又被称为“后终身制评估”或“终身教授的成就评估”。