Evaluation of Service to the College and Community
The faculty are the stewards of the College. Part of that stewardship involves contributing to the life and mission of the College through service. Not everyone will find the same ways to serve the college; however, everyone should find some way to do it.
After the first year, tenure-track faculty members will be evaluated for service annually. Tenured faculty members will be evaluated every three years for service. Non-tenure-track faculty members in renewable positions, following their first year, will be evaluated each year for service for their first six years and every third year afterwards. Part-time faculty will typically not be evaluated for service.
Service will be evaluated as Meets Expectations, Exceeds Expectations, Of Concern, or Does Not Meet Expectations. It is assumed that most faculty members will Meet or Exceed Expectations. Evaluation of service will normally be based on faculty self-reporting on the Faculty Activity Summary. The rating of Meets Expectations is based on the definition of Service to the College and Community in the Performance Standards section of the Faculty Handbook:
A faculty member’s service to the College and campus community will be evaluated in terms of and their contributions to the College through advising, committee work, administrative assignments, and other service work such as sponsorship of student organizations, organization of convocations, and similar activities. Contributions to the larger professional academic community, and to the local off-campus community, shall be taken into account insofar as they pertain to the purposes of the College and to the individual's professional responsibility.
Service on standing committees of the faculty and college council, search committees, advising and other contributions such as sponsorship of student organizations and organization of convocations are expected of all faculty members and will normally Meet Expectations. Service on ad hoc committees likewise comes in the ordinary course of membership on the faculty and will normally Meet Expectations.
A rating of Exceeds Expectations will normally involve one or more of the following: membership on an elected committee that requires a large commitment of time and a high degree of responsibility; chairing search committees or regular committees; voluntary contribution to standard or ad hoc committees that goes substantially beyond the normal demands of that committee; direction of long term study away programs; and/or voluntary, sometimes hidden, contributions to the life of the college that have a demonstrable impact on the life of the community. Such contributions may involve the mentoring of new faculty and advising of students that go well beyond normal expectations. To Exceed Expectations through unique contributions to the College that are outside of the general administrative structure, faculty are required to explain their activity on the Faculty Activity Summary.
Contributions to the larger professional academic community that do not qualify as scholarship may help a faculty member Meet Expectations, and in rare cases such as serving as an officer of a professional organization or planning an academic conference may earn a rating of Exceeds Expectations for service.
The rating Of Concern will reflect a decline in service to below the level of Meets Expectations in a given review period, and will invite a conversation with the division chair and/or associate dean.
A faculty member who Does Not Meet Expectations will be someone who persistently declines normal opportunities for service, repeatedly impedes productive committee work, or who does not fulfill the basic obligations of committee membership over an extended period of time