Charge of the Faculty Annual Evaluation Advisory Committee

From the Department Bylaws:

ARTICLE XIII - FACULTY ANNUAL EVALUATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Section One - Membership of the Faculty Annual Evaluation Advisory Committee

There will be three regular members and one alternate member. All members will be tenured faculty of the Department. Regular members will serve rotating three years terms. (For the first election length of terms, one, two or three years,, will be determined by lot.) The alternate member will serve a one year term.

Section Two - duties of the Faculty Annual Evaluation Advisory Committee

(A) The Annual Evaluation Advisory Committee shall conduct the peer reviews and the post-tenure peer reviews for the Department.

(B) The Committee shall receive from the Department Head a draft annual evaluation of each faculty member and copies of the relevant materials upon which the evaluation was based.

(C) The Committee shall review each annual evaluation in a timely manner and prepare a responsive report to each evaluation. Minority reports from the Committee are permitted.

(D) Reports from the Committee may

1. (1) Report that the Committee concurs with the Department Head's evaluation.
2. (2) Report that the Committee does not concur with the Department Head's evaluation. In this case, the Committee must indicate precisely what part or parts of the evaluation it disagrees with and present an alternate evaluation.

In both types of reports the committee as a whole or individual members of the committee may prepare statements.

(E) The Department Head shall consider the Committee's report(s) as advisory in determining the final evaluation report of each faculty member with one exception. If the draft evaluation if a faculty member presented by the head to the Committee is "unsatisfactory," and the Committee, by majority vote, does not concur, the Department Head may not award an unsatisfactory to that faculty member.

If both the Head of the Department and the Faculty Annual Evaluation Advisory Committee award a faculty member a rating of "unsatisfactory" that faculty member may appeal the evaluation to the tenured faculty of the department, which after considering the basis of the evaluation may either uphold or reject the evaluation.

(F) Members of the Committee will recuse themselves when their own evaluation is being considered by the Committee. At that time the alternate will be seated as a full member of the Committee.

Section Three - Selection of the Faculty Annual Evaluation Advisory Committee

Regular and Alternate Members of the Committee will serve on a rotational basis. An initial list of all tenured faculty members, except the Department Head, will be prepared with order arranged by lot. The first three slots become the first three regular members. The fourth slot will become the first alternate member. The next year the fourth slot will become a regular member. The fifth slot will become the alternate member and so on. After serving on the committee as a regular member, the faculty member's name will return to the bottom of the list. New faculty members' names as they obtain tenure, and department heads' names, when they return to the teaching faculty and research faculty will be added to the list at a random position following the names of all those currently serving on the committee. At least one Professor and at least one Associate Professor must be included among the regular members.