EVALUATION

7.1  The District, represented by an appropriate administrator, retains responsibility for the evaluation and assessment of performance of each faculty member. Such responsibility shall be exercised in a manner consistent with the following procedural guidelines.

7.2  Written evaluation and assessment of performance shall take place at least once each college year for probationary faculty and at least once every other year for tenured faculty. Hourly faculty shall be evaluated at least once during every four (4) semesters of employment. The evaluation process shall follow the administrative regulations (Appendix M).

7.3  District and Association approval shall be required before changes to the evaluation process, as outlined in the Administrative Regulations, and/or changes to evaluation forms are made. If the District and Association deem it necessary, a joint District Administration and Faculty Association Evaluation Committee composed of three members from each group shall consult and attempt to agree upon procedures, objectives, standards, forms and assessment methods to be used for tenured, probationary and hourly faculty.

7.4  Techniques of evaluation may include observation, peer review, self-appraisal, and student appraisal, except that peer review must be used as a component of tenured, probationary and hourly faculty evaluation. Peer review is defined as input to the evaluation process by an academic member of the faculty.

7.5   Each evaluator shall be encouraged to make formal recognition of areas of exemplary performance on the part of the faculty member being evaluated in the written evaluation. Should the evaluator note specific deficiencies in the evaluation, reasonable assistance shall be provided the faculty member being evaluated in developing a plan to correct the deficiencies.

7.6  Upon completion of the written evaluation and prior to the time such evaluation is placed in the file of the faculty member being evaluated, the faculty member shall be provided an opportunity to meet with each evaluator and discuss the evaluation.

7.6.1 The faculty member being evaluated shall be provided a copy of the written evaluation prior to the meeting.

7.6.2 Each evaluator and the faculty member being evaluated shall sign the final evaluation as an indication that the meeting took place.

7.6.3 The faculty member being evaluated shall be provided up to ten (10) days to prepare a written response to the evaluation. Such response shall be attached to the personnel file copy of the evaluation.

7.6.4 A report of student evaluation shall be available to department chairs and division deans as an input to the overall evaluation process. No later than the second week of the semester following the semester the student evaluation takes place, the student evaluation report shall be returned to the faculty member. Student evaluation reports shall not be placed in the faculty member's personnel file unless requested by the faculty member.

7.7  Evaluations to determine part-time faculty to be designated "Associate faculty" will be performed by the Department Chair or his or her full-time faculty designee.

7.7.1 Associate faculty must continue to receive satisfactory evaluations to remain in that group and may request evaluation by a peer review panel in a manner consistent with tenured faculty. Evaluations for Associate Faculty may be more frequent than the minimums established in the Administrative Regulations.

7.7.2 Procedures for evaluation to identify nominees will be developed as described in 6.6.1, and can be found in Appendix K.

7.8 The subjective decisions of the evaluators shall not be subject to Article 12, Grievance Procedures.

7.9  Evaluation forms shall be found in Appendix M.

7.10  The procedure for evaluation shall be found in Appendix M and in Administrative Regulations 4115.