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2000/01 RPT Document Amendments


FSD 85-187v1.R14a
Faculty Affairs Committee April 2001

PROCEDURES AND CRITERIA FOR PERFORMANCE REVIEW AND PERIODIC EVALUATION
VOLUME I:  INSTRUCTIONAL FACULTY


Chapter 1, Section I

Clarification of FERP faculty participation in evaluation process.


Procedures contained in this document are in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding.  This Memorandum of Understanding uses the term "Faculty Unit Employees" to refer to all persons in Bargaining Unit 3.  In this Volume, the term "faculty shall refer to all faculty unit employees who are instructional faculty.  Faculty in the "Faculty Early Retirement Program" (FERP) are not eligible to serve on evaluation committees.  In any case where disagreement occurs between this Volume and the MOU, the MOU shall prevail.
 
Chapter 1, Section II, D,3

Revision of SETE schedule for first year probationary faculty.


3. Student Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness (SETE) or Alternative Evaluation Instruments.

First year probationary faculty shall have all their first quarter classes SETEd.  These shall not be placed in their WPAF.  In the subsequent two quarters of tht first year, two classes per quarter shall be SETEd.  For years two and three, probationary faculty will have five courses SETEd each year. For probationary faculty in their fourth, fifth, and sixth years of service, SETEs shall be obtained in a minimum of three courses annually.  SETEs for tenured faculty members shall be obtained in two courses annually on a prearranged, regular schedule.  A faculty member may request additional evaluations.  SETEs shall be obtained for all temporary faculty members in all classes taught. 
 

Chapter 1, Section II, E, 2, a

Provides for the inclusion of leave and grant reports in WPAF.


The WPAF shall include, where required, the following:

1.     A FAR (and the Index of Attachments to the FAR) reflecting the cumulative
        record in all areas of evaluation;

2.     Classroom Visitation Reports;

3.     Student Evaluations of Teaching Effectiveness (SETEs) or alternative student 
        evaluation instruments (summary reports and completed forms);

4.     Responses and rebuttals;

5.     Faculty authored reports from sabbatical leaves, difference-in-pay 
        leaves, minigrants, and other internal CSUSB grants;

6.     All other evaluation materials appropriately included in the PAF;

7.     All current and previous summary statements and recommendations resulting 
        from the evaluation process.
 

Chapter 1, Section II, E, 2, c

SETEs to be returned to faculty member after specified period of time.

c.   SETEs (or alternative student evaluations) shall be retained in a faculty member’s WPAF for a period of at least five years.  After a tenure track faculty member is promoted and tenured, the raw forms more than five years old shall be returned to the faculty member.  In the case of a tenured faculty member, the raw forms more than five years old shall be returned to the faculty member after each periodic evaluation is completed.  In the case of a temporary faculty member, the raw forms more than five years old shall be returned to the faculty member after each range elevation.
Chapter 2, Section II, B,6 and Chapter 2, Section II, C, 1, a

Bullets replace lettering.

On list of examples of professional activities and list of examples of University service, lower case letters replaced with bullets.

 

Appendix 1 (Format for Faculty Activities Report)

Professional activities should now be arranged in the order of relative importance.

Professional activites that are "in progress" need to be listed separately with additional information.
 
 

II.  PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES  (Attach supporting evidence.)
 
    A.   See Chapter 2, Section II.B.6 of the "Procedures and Criteria for Performance Review and Periodic Evaluation of Faculty" for examples of professional growth activities and organize your description according to your sense of their relative importance.  Be sure to include a Joint Activities Report for each joint project listed (Appendix 2).

    B.   Professional activity in progress.  List and briefly describe professional activities that you are currently working on, and indicate roughly how close they are to completion.
 




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