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for a review a copy of the appropriate faculty self-evaluation form. This form must be completed by the following September 21. By April 1, the Chair of the Committee on Rank and Tenure will send all other committee and council chairs a form to be used by them in describing the attendance and participation of all faculty members on these committees. This form must be completed and returned to the Committee of Rank and Tenure by April 30. Each semester, the Committee on Rank and Tenure also will obtain appropriate unsigned student evaluations from all classes taught by each ranked faculty member. Student evaluations are intended to provide the faculty member with information which will enhance teaching effectiveness and also to provide information for use in the evaluation of faculty. Therefore, the faculty member, the Committee on Rank and Tenure, the immediate academic supervisor, and the Dean should have access to both quantitative summaries and student comments on evaluation forms. The Committee on Rank and Tenure may make copies of original evaluations as it deems appropriate. The Committee on Rank and Tenure will forward to the faculty member both the summary data and the original student evaluations for fall semester by January 31 and for spring semester by June 30. The Committee will also retain a copy of the summary data for the faculty member’s personnel file and will forward copies to the immediate academic supervisor. At the request of the immediate academic supervisor or the Dean, the faculty member will provide access to the original evaluation forms. The faculty member may append comments concerning these student evaluations to the self-evaluation form. The faculty member must submit the completed self-evaluation form and attachments to her/his immediate academic supervisor by September 21. The post-tenure faculty member must submit the completed self-evaluation form and attachments to her/his immediate academic supervisor by October 15. The immediate academic supervisor will prepare an evaluation of the individual's total professional development on a form provided by the Committee on Rank and Tenure, which form will have space for the supervisor to evaluate the faculty member's performance on each of the criteria in Article 17. The faculty member’s evaluation shall be completed by his/her immediate academic supervisor for the academic year under evaluation. If, at the time the faculty member’s evaluation is submitted, the immediate academic supervisor has changed, the previous and current supervisors shall meet to discuss the evaluation as well as the ongoing supervisory relationship with the faculty member up to this point. If the immediate academic supervisor for the academic year under evaluation ceases employment with Regis University and will not complete the faculty member’s evaluation prior to deadline set by Rank and Tenure, the new academic supervisor shall complete this evaluation. In the case of review for a tenured department chair seeking promotion or in the case of annual review, including the tenure review, for a non-tenured department chair, a Special Academic Evaluator will be selected to provide an independent evaluation of the individual. In these cases, because the Dean has a separate role in the evaluation process, this evaluation supplants the evaluation of the supervisor. In the fall semester one year prior to the year in which the evaluation is to be done, the members of the department will provide the Committee on Rank and Tenure with a list of names of tenured faculty members who are potential evaluators. The members of the department will also provide the list to the chair and the Dean. If the Dean and/or chair do not agree with the names selected by the department, they may also submit names to the Committee. The Committee will make the selection from the list(s) and will notify the Dean, the chair, the members of the department and the selected Special Academic Evaluator. 42
Both the self-evaluation and the supervisor’s or Special Academic Evaluator’s evaluation must include, if warranted, an assessment of areas to be corrected and/or improved. Following the third year of professional service (the review two years before the faculty member is scheduled to apply for tenure) the supervisor or Special Academic Evaluator will specifically state his/her assessment of the faculty member’s current performance level and recommend any needed improvement in preparation for application for tenure. The supervisor or Special Academic Evaluator will forward his/her written evaluation, along with the individual's self-evaluation form and any supporting documents, to the Chair of the Committee on Rank and Tenure by October 7 for probationary/tenure track faculty and by October 31 for post-tenure faculty. In order to judge fairly the professional development of each faculty member, supervisors or special academic evaluators should obtain pertinent information about a faculty member's academic performance from a variety of sources, including: a. the faculty member's self-evaluation form and student evaluations; b. information from appropriate majors who have taken classes from the faculty member; c. information from other members of the department or program, particularly from those who have taught with or observed the teaching of the faculty member; d. first-hand information about the teaching effectiveness of the faculty member after visiting one or more classes. The data obtained must be incorporated into the supervisor's or special academic evaluator’s written evaluation and a copy of the evaluation must be given to the individual concerned and discussed with the faculty member in such a way that confidentiality is maintained and the information is helpful to the faculty member. This discussion must take place before the submission of the evaluation to the Committee on Rank and Tenure. At the time of this discussion, the faculty member must sign the form to confirm that s/he has had an opportunity to review the evaluation. Following this discussion, the faculty member will have until October 14 for probationary/tenure track faculty and by November 7 for posttenure faculty to submit any clarifying comments regarding the evaluation to the Committee, with a copy to the supervisor or special academic evaluator. Also by October 7, the Dean will notify the Committee on Rank and Tenure of any material in a faculty member's personnel file that is identified as appropriate and/or necessary for them to take into account in their deliberations. The Committee on Rank and Tenure will first determine if the material it receives on each faculty member is complete and will not consider it complete unless all pertinent information is available. If any material is absent, the Committee will so inform the source and a. may accept a written explanation of the absence from the source in lieu of the material; b. if the source is a supervisor and more complete information is not forthcoming by a date set by the Committee, the Committee shall ask the Dean, or the Vice President for Academic Affairs if the supervisor is the Dean, to substitute for the supervisor and the Committee shall have the option of placing a note of noncompliance in the supervisor's personnel file; and 43
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