On-Going Evaluation of all Faculty

Faculty members will be evaluated annually or tri-annually, on the calendar year, based on their status at the end of the calendar year.

Tenure-track members of the Centre College faculty will be evaluated annually. After their first year, which is not evaluated for service or scholarship, each non-tenured faculty member’s performance is evaluated in each of the three areas defined in Performance Standards: effective teaching, scholarly and professional activity and achievement, and service to the College and community. Tenured faculty members will be evaluated every three years in these same three categories. 1 Non-tenure-track faculty members will be evaluated annually until their sixth year, after which they will be evaluated every three years.

The performance of all members of the faculty will be reviewed at a meeting attended by the President, the Dean of the College, the Associate Dean of the College, and the appropriate Division Chair. Tenure-track faculty members and non-tenure-track faculty members on renewable appointments subsequently receive a summary evaluation letter every year. Tenured faculty and non-tenure-track instructors who have been at Centre for six or more years will receive a letter every third year. These evaluations will be based principally on the annual Faculty Activity Summary (see Faculty Activity Summaries), Reflection on Student Learning forms, reports of classroom visits (non-tenured faculty only), one’s curriculum vitae, and other information a faculty member may provide.

In addition, as part of the tenure process, tenure-track members of the faculty will be evaluated by the Committee on Tenure and Reappointment and by the Dean of the College at the mid-point of their probationary period and during the year prior to the final year of pre-tenure probation.