Evaluation Procedure for Temporary Faculty without Three-Year Appointments

Evaluation Procedure
for Temporary Faculty without Three-Year Appointments

Updated: 17-feb-10

Lecturer Evaluation Procedures:
Temporary Faculty without 3-Year Appointments | Temporary Faculty with 3-Year Appointments

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2009-2010 Deadlines | Class Visit Report | Printer-Friendly Version

A Class Visit Report will be prepared by the Department Chair or designee. Instructors will have been contacted no later than Week Eight of the fall semester to schedule this visit..

Student evaluations will be conducted in all classes taught each semester--normally during the last two weeks of the semester. A packet of evaluations with instructions for student administration will be available at the beginning of the evaluation period. It is the instructor’s responsibility to schedule an appropriate time period for the students to complete these evaluations.

Regardless of the semester an instructor teaches, for consideration for subsequent employment, he or she will provide a self-evaluation statement of no more than two pages and a full syllabus (policy statement plus daily plan) for each course taught during the past calendar year by Week Seven of the spring semester. This statement should address comments made in student evaluations and strengths and weaknesses highlighted in Class Visit Reports. It may also include areas such as goals for the course, any new instructional strategies attempted, and new textbooks used.

By Week Nine of spring semester, an annual review will be completed by the Personnel Committee. The committee will review the previous semester student evaluations, the Class Visit Report, and the instructor’s self-evaluation statement. Areas needing improvement will be identified. Based on this review, the committee will determine if the instructor’s teaching effectiveness is satisfactory for the purposes of future employment. The Personnel Committee’s statement will be placed in the instructor’s Personnel Action File after the appropriate document review period.

Prior to Week Thirteen of the spring semester, the Screening Committee will have completed its ranking pursuant to extending part-time assignments for the subsequent academic year.

Annual periodic evaluation of temporary faculty serves a dual purpose. It is mandated by the collective bargaining agreement; satisfactory performance is a condition of reappointment. As such, these procedures will be used to evaluate performance effectiveness. More importantly, a thoughtful evaluation process should also serve as a development tool for the faculty as a concrete aid in improving the teaching and learning of our curriculum.

2008-2009 Deadlines (Printer-Friendly Version)
Week Eight of Fall Semester: Friday, October 11, 2009
Week Seven of Spring Semester: Friday, March 12, 2010
Week Nine of Spring Semester: Friday, March 26, 2010
Week Thirteen of Spring Semester: Friday, April 23, 2010