TENURED FACULTY REVIEW AND DEVELOPMENT

This policy is adopted to implement UW Board of Regents Policy and UWC Senate Policy #35.  It is clearly understood that this is not a retenuring process and is intended to review past faculty performance in order to provide the opportunity to plan development activities and the strategies for implementing faculty development.

Guidelines:

            1.            Each tenured member of the department will be reviewed every 5 years.

            2.            Approximately one-fifth of the tenured members of the department will be

                        reviewed each year.

            3.            Each year, the department chair shall develop and update the order for

                        review.

            4.            Those for whom the period of time since their last major tenure/promotion is the longest shall be reviewed earliest in the process.

Review:

            1.            Department members are responsible for maintaining a five-year file and

                        for providing plans for development.

            2.            Materials to be reviewed must include, but are not limited to, the

                        following items covering the five year review period:

                                    a.            Merit review letters.

                                    b.            Faculty Activity Reports.

                                    c.            Student Evaluations of Instruction.

                                    d.            A plan for developmental activities.

                                    e.            Evidence for professional development.

                                    f.            Evidence of University and community service.

            3.            The review and development conference will involve a face-to-face

                        meeting between the department chair, the campus dean, and the

                        individual under review.

            4.            When the chair is reviewed, the vice-chair will conduct the review and

                        development conference and write the summary of the review and

                        development conference.

            5.            The development conference will promote a linkage between faculty

review and faculty development as indicated in Senate Policy #35 sections

A7 and B5.

6.            The chair will provide, in consultation with the dean, a summary of the

                        review and development session.

            7.            In cases where the review reveals deficiencies, the plans for development

                        will focus on remedying the problem.  If the deficiency is so serious that it

                        cannot be addressed within the review and development program, the

                        procedures of Sen. #47, Policy for Ineffective or Inactive Performance ,

                        will be utilized.

Procedures:

            1.            Initial review and development conferences will be held during the 1994-

                        95 academic year.

            2.            Faculty members to be reviewed shall be notified by May 1 of the year

                        preceding the scheduled review and development conference.

            3.            The department chair, in consultation with the dean and the faculty

                        member to be reviewed shall schedule the review conference no sooner

                        than October 1 nor later than April 15.

            4.            Within 60 days of the conference, the department chair or vice-chair will

                        provide the summary of the review and development session.

            5.            Copies of the summary of the review and development session will be

                        placed in the faculty members five year file, the campus personnel file, the

                        department personnel file, and following review by the vice chancellor, in

                        the vice chancellor’s permanent file.

Approved by Department:  April 21, 1995

Webpage Updated: April 16, 2005