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Faculty Governance

III.G. Assessment of the College and Its Administration

1. Assessment of the College and the Dean
   1. An Assessment Committee of four faculty, elected at-large by the faculty, will conduct an annual assessment of the state of the College and how it might be improved. Committee members will serve staggered two-year terms, with the initial terms determined by lot. The senior ranking representative (years in highest rank) will be chair and assume responsibility for coordinating the assessment.
   2. The assessment will minimally include a survey of all full-time faculty regarding their perception of the College's strengths and weaknesses and how they think the College could be strengthened. The survey must be reviewed and approved by the faculty and is subject to yearly review and modification.
   3. All assessment data will be anonymous.
   4. The Committee will detail the perceived strengths and weaknesses and provide a check list for how the College could be strengthened. The annual check lists will serve as one basis of the assessment and will be available for all faculty and staff.
   5. Upon completion of the assessment, the Committee will meet with the Dean and other appropriate administrators to discuss the assessment; these meetings should take place no later than April 30th.
   6. After this meeting with the Committee, the Dean will make a summary report to the Liberal Arts Faculty before the end of the academic year; this report can be in oral or written form.
2. Assessment of Departmental Chairs
   1. Each department and program chair will be reviewed annually. This review is the responsibility of the Dean of the College and will include a consideration of ratings and comments from the faculty of the Chair’s department. These ratings and comments will be collected the Chairs Evaluation Committee (CEC), a standing committee of the College of Liberal Arts. The entire procedure will preserve faculty anonymity.
   2. The annual review will consist of the following steps:
      1. By the third week of the fall quarter, the CEC will administer a survey to department faculty regarding the performance of each department and program chair. A starting date will be determined by the CEC but should be no later than the end of the third week of fall quarter. The termination date will be the first day of classes winter quarter.
      2. The CEC will tabulate responses and compile a summary report, hereinafter termed a Feedback for Department Chair Report, for each department and program chair. The CEC will send the Feedback for Department Chair Report to the dean no later than January 15th. The dean will ensure that the chair receives a copy of the Feedback for Department Chair Report after chairs have completed the evaluation of their faculty.
      3. Department and program chairs will include a copy of the Feedback for Department Chair Report in their self-evaluation and Plan of Work. The Plan of Work will explicitly address areas in need of improvement, if any, as identified by the Feedback for Department Chair Report.
      4. The dean will meet with each chair to discuss the self-evaluation, the Plan of Work, and the Feedback for Department Chair Report. The dean and the chair will discuss areas in need of improvement identified by the Feedback for Department Chair Report and steps for improvement.
      5. The steps for improvement formulated above will be communicated by the chair to members of the department or program.