Department Chairpersons must evaluate all tenure-track faculty members on an annual basis. Tenured and Term-Renewable faculty at the rank of Associate Professor are evaluated every three years and tenured faculty at the rank of Professor are evaluated every five years unless the Chairperson or the appropriate Dean deem it necessary to evaluate a faculty member more frequently. Professors of Practice and Laboratory Instructor & Coordinators are evaluated annually until promotion to Senior status. Senior Professors of Practice and Laboratory Instructor & Coordinators are evaluated every five years unless the Chairperson or the appropriate Dean deems it necessary to evaluate a faculty member more frequently. (See Policy 2509 Annual Evaluation of Faculty in the College’s Online Policy Manual). Templates for the evaluations can be accessed through the Faculty Forms link on the Academic Affairs myHill page.
Department Chairs, Program Directors and Graduate Directors may request a waiver for a faculty member from the Faculty Review cycle. Requests are made by submitting the Request for Faculty Review Cycle Waiver form available in the Resources for Academic Program Leadership section of the Academic Affairs myHill page. Waiver requests are considered by the appropriate Dean and, if approved, are for one year only. Tenure-track Assistant Professors are not eligible for a waiver.
In the evaluation of the faculty in a Department, due in the Dean’s office by July 30th of each year, the following serve as guidelines for Department Chairpersons. Professors of Practice and Laboratory Instructor & Coordinators are evaluated on all criteria except for #5, bullets 2 – 4:
- Teaching effectiveness, based on:
- A review of student and peer evaluations of teaching (other than course evaluations for first-year faculty which are formative only).
- Nature of courses taught, based on course syllabi assignments, and teaching materials.
- Supervision of directed studies, internships, field studies.
- Effectiveness in mentoring students:
- Advising students on curricular matters, post-graduate plans, etc.
- Helping students with problems in their courses
- Fulfillment of all institutional and departmental obligations:
- Participating in departmental meetings and projects (and effectiveness of same)
- Conscientiously carrying out obligations to students – meeting classes regularly, advance notification of unavoidable absence, keeping office hours, returning assignments and examinations within a reasonable period of time, etc.
- Successful integration within the College community:
- Participating in faculty seminars and other campus academic and co-curricular activities
- Stimulating interest in cultural, political, and social affairs
- Encouraging interdepartmental dialogue
- Experimenting with innovative pedagogy
- Participating in committee functions
- Efforts at professional growth:
- Progress toward completion of terminal degree (if applicable)
- Research, scholarship, publication, etc.
- Presenting at regional, national and international professional meetings
- Active membership in professional societies
Should the Chairperson make recommendations for improvement in any area, the Chairperson and the faculty member should work together to develop a plan of action to address such recommendations. The Associate Vice President for Academic Operations will report to the Deans and Vice President for Academic Affairs each August the status of all faculty reviews.