Faculty Handbook 2007-2008

1. The Administrator Review shall be conducted by a committee of the Teaching Faculty and consist of the Chair-Elect of the Faculty and four faculty members, one from each division of the College, to be elected each spring by the General Faculty for a one-year term.

2. The committee shall first convene early in the fall with the Chair of the Faculty and the President or the President's designate to discuss the process of review. Meetings will be chaired by the Chair-Elect of the Faculty. The goal is to review two administrators each year.

3. The next step of each review is a meeting of the committee with the administrator to discuss the review process. This meeting should take place before the 4th week of the fall semester. During this meeting it is important to a) establish the scope and responsibilities of the position, and b) list areas of particular importance for consideration during the review.

4. The administrator then prepares a self-evaluation for the committee. The administrator should include a list of others with whom he or she has frequent contact so that the committee can solicit input from them. This report should be submitted by the 6th week of the fall semester.

5. The committee, at its discretion and in consultation with the President, may draw up an additional list of people pertinent to the review who will be contacted. Any additional list of names will be shared with the administrator. The committee will then formulate a set of questions to ask of those on the list(s) and solicit input from them. All teaching and general faculty will also be invited to submit letters evaluating the administrator. All letters are confidential. Collection of letters should be completed by the end of the fall semester. Additional kinds of data pertinent to the particular position under review (e.g. library statistics, computer-usage information, etc.) may be collected by the committee as agreed upon by the President or the President's designate and the Chair of the Faculty in the initial organizational meeting.

6. The committee shall then prepare a written report to the President summarizing all input and evaluating the performance of the administrator. No recommendations regarding salary or renewal shall be given in the report. The report, along with all letters collected, shall be submitted to the President. Copies of the report will also be sent to the administrator.

7. The faculty should continue the ongoing cycle of five-year reviews except that it should establish the principle that administrators are not reviewed before their third year in office. Although this may create an imbalance in the work of the committee from year to year, it makes it possible to review four full years of work and eliminates the possibility that a person could come up for formal review in just his or her first or second year.