Faculty Rights and Responsibilities
Administrative Review Policy
Faculty Participation in the Review
of Administrators
Original Document Approved: May, 1985; Revised: Spring, 2001
(Approved by the Board of Trustees April 6, 2001)
- Purpose
This review process is designed to facilitate faculty involvement
in the review of selected administrators by providing faculty
the opportunity to communicate their assessment of administrators'
performance.
- Scope
Administrators to be reviewed under this policy include the
provost, deans, department chairs, the university librarian,
and the directors of Computing and Telecommunications Services
(CATS) and the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL).
In the Schools of Medicine and of Professional Psychology
only the deans are subject to review under this policy because
their by-laws provide a separate system of administrative
review.
- Frequency of Review
Faculty will be given regular opportunities to comment on
administrators' performance by means of (1) an informal
annual feedback mechanism and (2) a fifth year formal review.
- Informal Annual Feedback
The administrator's supervisor will establish a mechanism
whereby he or she annually solicits feedback from faculty
in the administrator's unit. Normally, this will be done
by means of a memo inviting feedback to be sent to the supervisor.
The supervisor will share all feedback received only with
the administrator.
- Formal Fifth Year Review
A formal review will be conducted in the fifth year and in
every fifth year thereafter. The initiation of a review is
the responsibility of the administrator's supervisor, who
shall tailor the review to the unique aspects of the position.
Any method or methods of information gathering may be used
providing that the review seeks information from all full-time
faculty members of the administrator's unit.
The supervisor will summarize findings of the review in a
final report that is made available to the faculty of the
administrator's unit.
- Policy Administration
The Office of the Provost shall oversee the implementation
of this policy and its continued administration.
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