Regular Performance Evaluations Clause Samples

Regular Performance Evaluations. The Department Chairs, Program Directors, and Vice Presidents have overall responsibility for the regular evaluation of Part-time Faculty Members. This may include, but not be limited to, the following: a. Reviewing all student evaluations, syllabi, and applicable course materials, examining assessment methods, and observing teaching to evaluate teaching effectiveness. The Chair, Program Director, or Vice President or their designee may also take into consideration any student complaints and commendations, both written and oral, about a Part-time Faculty Member's performance. b. Student Evaluations: Every Part-time Faculty Member shall be evaluated by students in each class each semester, using University-approved course evaluation processes and forms. Departments may use different course evaluation forms, provided they have been approved by the respective ▇▇▇▇ of the School or College. At the end of each semester, the Department Chair, Program Director, or Vice President will review the course evaluations and shall provide feedback to the Part-time Faculty Member if there is evidence of unsatisfactory teaching performance. c. In order to assess teaching effectiveness, the Department Chair, Program Director, Vice President, or designee may also visit the classes of any Part­ time Faculty Member under his/her supervision at any time and as he/she deems appropriate based on reasonable concerns of teaching performance or 19 I at the request of the Part-time Faculty Member. Normally, this will be done no more than once a semester. Whether or not visits are scheduled by mutual agreement will be at the discretion of each School or College. Generally, the date and time of the classroom observation shall be decided in advance by mutual agreement between the Department Chair, Program Director, Vice President or designee doing the observation and the Part-time Faculty Member. Under normal circumstances, the Part-time Faculty Member will be notified one week in advance of a classroom visit, and a classroom visit will be done no more than once during a course. The Chair, Program Director, Vice President or designee, shall write a summary of any classroom visit and shall meet with the Part-time Faculty Member in order to provide a copy of the written summary and review his/her observations. The Part-time Faculty Member is free to add his/her own comments about the observation summary. Such summary by the Chair, Program Director, Vice President or designee, as well as a...