C. Areas of Faculty Performance Evaluated

The evaluation areas must be consistent with those presented in Chapter Four, Section III, of this Faculty Policies and Procedures Handbook and with the overall weighting rules described below. The evaluation submitted by the faculty member should address the activities described in his/her professional plan (see the next section for requirements for the professional plan), as well as other activities that the faculty member completed which were not included in the plan. The weights included in this evaluation shall be the same as either (1) the weights submitted in the original professional plan or (2) the modified weights submitted subsequently in writing to the evaluator.

An adjustable model for weighting each evaluation area has been adopted, as depicted below.

The range of weights for each evaluation area may be further restricted by general policy established by the deans and the unique desires of each faculty member to influence the importance placed on each evaluation area. However, administrative policy and individual desires may not arbitrarily remove any single evaluation area from consideration in a faculty member’s annual evaluation process. Thus, the weight applied to any evaluation area may not be set below the minimums displayed above for any faculty member without significant extenuating circumstances that are justified and documented in writing. Exceptional situations might include times when a faculty member: (1) participates in an exchange with another university; (2) receives a full‐time release from teaching to fulfill a research grant; (3) receives substantial release from one or more of the evaluation areas due to taking on significant administrative duties; (4) is on sabbatical; or (5) when the faculty member is a non‐full‐time adjunct who is not required to provide service in all the evaluation areas. Note that a reduction of a weight for an evaluation area implies only that the faculty member intends to place less emphasis on that evaluation area, not that the faculty member will be permitted to perform less satisfactorily in the evaluation area for activities actually performed.