Faculty Activity Plans Clause Samples

The Faculty Activity Plans clause outlines the requirements and procedures for faculty members to document and submit their planned teaching, research, and service activities for a given period. Typically, faculty are required to prepare these plans at the start of an academic year or term, detailing their intended courses, research projects, committee work, and other professional responsibilities. This clause ensures that faculty workload is transparent and aligned with institutional goals, facilitating performance evaluation and resource allocation while promoting accountability and clear communication between faculty and administration.
Faculty Activity Plans. The FAP describes the expectations regarding teaching/librarianship, scholarship/research/creative activity and service for an individual tenure-track faculty member, tenured faculty member or senior lecturer/senior library/clinical associate over a multi-year period.
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Faculty Activity Plans. (a) Each faculty member shall, in consultation with the department personnel committee (DPC) and the department chair, prepare a faculty activity plan specifying areas of activity over the following three-year period. Such plans shall have been prepared and approved no later than the conclusion of the first academic quarter of the three-year period of activity covered by the activity plan. (b) The plan shall be consistent with the department, college and University mission and the Collective Bargaining Agreement and shall include all areas of professional activity and development and expected performance, e.g., quantity and quality of instructional responsibility, scholarly/research/creative activity plans; service involvement; and any other expectations as required by departmental or college plans. (i) Activity plans may allow for the adjustment of planned activities among the categories of expected performance, as consistent with department, college and University mission, but shall present an overall equitable workload as the basis for the evaluation and approval of the plan and as the basis for the evaluation of the faculty member’s performance in relation to the plan. (ii) Where the activity plan is intended by the faculty member to lead to tenure and/or promotion the plan shall so state. Activity plans intended to lead to tenure decisions shall require the approval of the Chief Academic Officer or designee. (iii) All faculty activity plans shall be reviewed by the appropriate ▇▇▇▇ for consistency with department/college plans and equitable distribution of workload expectations within the department and college. At the option of the college, as expressed in the college plan, the college personnel committee may also review faculty activity plans for these same purposes. (c) Review of faculty performance in relation to the activity plans shall occur at a minimum on a three-year basis as required by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges. See Appendix IX. Department and/or college plans may require review more often. The standard cycle of annual review for tenure-track faculty members during the first three (3) years of employment at EWU shall continue. (i) Reviews of faculty performance in relation to their individual faculty activity plans shall be conducted separately by the DPC and the department chair based on materials submitted by the faculty member relating to activity since the last three-year review. (ii) The materials submitted shal...
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Faculty Activity Plans. 1. The faculty member’s responsibilities (teaching, research/scholarship/creative activity and service) will be determined based on the department plan. One purpose of the department plan is to establish the criteria to evaluate faculty for retention, tenure, and promotion and post-tenure faculty activities. 2. Teaching will remain the primary function of faculty members at EWU; however, departments may need faculty who can fulfill a variety of roles and not all faculty will have the same roles in a department.
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