July 12, 2002 'Collegiality' as a Tenure Battleground [How "nice" are you?] (NYT) By TAMAR LEWIN For generations, professors seeking tenure at colleges and universities have been evaluated on three factors: teaching, research and service to the institution. But a number of young professors, especially women, have recently contended that their bids for lifetime academic appointments were derailed by a more slippery fourth factor: collegiality. "More and more cases are coming up on some version of the collegiality issue," said Martin Snyder, director of planning and development at the American Association of University Professors. "We just saw three cases simultaneously...