Administration Review. a. The appropriate Vice President, Xxxx, or designee will make scheduled classroom/worksite/electronic visits as described below, complete a formal evaluation, and confer with the tenured faculty member. i. The faculty member and Vice President, Xxxx or designee will mutually agree on the course(s) or equivalent in which the scheduled evaluation(s) will take place, so that the faculty member may be observed under optimum conditions commensurate with his/her abilities. ii. Each evaluation shall be based upon at least one (1) observation, lasting at least fifty (50) minutes. iii. Each evaluation may include information relevant to the instructional duties assigned to the faculty member, including participation in curriculum development and review, and in development and assessment of student learning outcomes. Any information included in the faculty member’s evaluation regarding participation in curriculum or student learning outcome processes must be verified and documented. iv. A faculty member may also elect to have a second evaluation by a tenured faculty member of his/her choice. This second evaluation is intended for improvement of faculty members and it may become a part of the personnel file only at the request of the faculty member being evaluated. v. Faculty members shall not be held accountable for any aspect of the educational program over which they have no authority. vi. Evaluations are to be based primarily on the observation described in subsection (ii) above. Hearsay statements, rumors or information from anonymous sources shall be excluded from written evaluations. The evaluator may include in the written evaluation information which has been documented through a completed investigation subsequent to a complaint, the findings of which investigation have been delivered to the faculty member under evaluation prior to the inclusion of this information in the evaluation report.
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Samples: Academic Employee Master Agreement, Academic Employee Master Agreement, Academic Employee Master Agreement
Administration Review. a. The appropriate Vice President, Xxxx, or designee will make scheduled classroom/worksite/electronic visits as described below, complete a formal evaluation, and confer with the tenured part-time faculty member.
i. a. The part-time faculty member and Vice President, Xxxx or designee will mutually agree on the course(s) or equivalent in which the scheduled evaluation(s) will take place, so that the faculty member may be observed under optimum conditions commensurate with his/her teaching abilities.
ii. b. Each evaluation shall be based upon at least one (1) observation, lasting at least fifty (50) minutes.
iii. Each evaluation may include information relevant to the instructional duties assigned to the c. Part-time faculty member, including participation in curriculum development and review, and in development and assessment of student learning outcomes. Any information included in the faculty member’s evaluation regarding participation in curriculum or student learning outcome processes must be verified and documented.
iv. A faculty member may also elect to have a second evaluation by a tenured faculty member of his/her choice. This second evaluation is intended for improvement of faculty members and it may become a part of the personnel file only at the request of the faculty member being evaluated.
v. Faculty members shall not be held accountable for any aspect of the educational program over which they have no authority.
vi. d. Evaluations are to be based primarily predominantly on the observation described in subsection (iib) above. Hearsay statements, rumors or information from anonymous sources shall be excluded from written evaluations. The evaluator may include in the written evaluation information which has been documented through a completed investigation subsequent to a complaint, the findings of which investigation have been delivered to the faculty member under evaluation prior to the inclusion of this information in the evaluation report.
e. The evaluation of the part-time faculty member may be completed by a full-time faculty member as the designee of the Vice President or the xxxx, under the following circumstances:
i. The full-time faculty member is tenured,
ii. The full-time faculty member is in good standing with an evaluation of “Satisfactory” or better on his or her most recent evaluation,
iii. The full-time faculty member is approved by the appropriate xxxx,
iv. Department chairs will have the first right of refusal for all evaluations of part-time faculty members in their areas,
v. In the event that an evaluation results in the determination that the evaluated part-time faculty member “needs improvement,” the evaluation process will revert to the xxxx, who will complete the evaluation.
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Samples: Academic Employee Master Agreement, Academic Employee Master Agreement, Academic Employee Master Agreement