122.2 Student Evaluation of Instructors

122.2 Student Evaluation of Instructors

A. Background

Each term students have the opportunity to evaluate the instructor of each class on forms prepared by the Faculty Status Committee and/or the academic department.

B. Policy

Each faculty member will provide an opportunity for students in each class to evaluate the course and the instruction. A department chair and the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean in unusual circumstances may approve the omission of this procedure for a specific course.

C. Guidelines

1. The Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean is responsible for distribution of the necessary forms each term at least two weeks before the beginning of the exam period. Faculty members are responsible for providing class time for students to complete the evaluations before the beginning of the examination period.

2. A student appointed by the professor in each class administers the evaluation per instructions provided and delivers them to the Associate Academic Dean.

3. The Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean is responsible for compiling results of the evaluations and delaying their distribution until grades for the class have been reported.

4. Results of the evaluations are available to the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean, the Faculty Status Committee, the department chair, and the instructor.

5. The Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean and the Faculty Status Committee may review the results of student evaluations in formulating their recommendations on salary, promotion, tenure, renewal of contract, nonrenewal of contract, or termination.

6. Individual faculty members are urged to use the student evaluations to improve their classroom work. Department chairs are encouraged to use them as one basis for conversations with individual faculty members regarding their work.

7. The department chair and the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean may approve the omission of the usual student evaluation in those cases in which the faculty member may provide comparable information to be used in the evaluation process.

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