D. Professional Plans

The faculty member shall provide a written professional plan to the evaluator at the start of the evaluation period. The professional plan shall include an outline of the proposed activities in each of the three evaluation areas for the coming year and must be included with the signed self‐evaluation submitted by the faculty member. The evaluator shall review and provide feedback on the professional plan with the faculty member in a timely manner, although the scope and breadth of this feedback shall be at the discretion of the evaluator. Neither the faculty member nor the evaluator shall interpret the professional plan as a binding contract. The purpose of the professional plan is (1) to assist in the planning of the principal focus of activities in each of the three evaluation areas for the coming year, (2) to document the intentions of the faculty member with respect to activities in each of the three evaluation areas, (3) to provide the evaluator the opportunity to offer constructive feedback to the faculty member early in the evaluation period, and (4) to establish the weights the faculty member is choosing to apply to each evaluation area. In response to changing opportunities throughout the evaluation period, revisions of the weightings in each of the evaluation areas in the original professional plan are permitted by submitting an alternative weighting scheme in writing to the evaluator before the end of the evaluation period. The faculty member may submit changes to the activities described in the professional plan in writing to the evaluator before the end of the evaluation period, and the evaluator may request a meeting with the faculty member to provide feedback on the amended professional plan.