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Center for Teaching and Learning - Ad-hoc Subcommittee: 2009 - 2011

The subcommittee on student evaluation of faculty performance was created on 12/09/09 by the faculty motion below. The Senate Committee on Faculty Personnel Policies recommends the following motion to establish the Committee on Student Evaluation of Faculty Performance as a subcommittee of the Faculty Development Committee.

Subcommittee Members: Name Department Kristen Chamberlain (co-chair) Communication Studies Joe Erickson (co-chair) Education Amy Gort Academic Affairs Boyd Koehler Library Scott Krajewski Information Technology Joan Kunz Chemistry John Zobitz Mathematics

As described in the document "Compiled Feedback From the Faculty Meeting Tables," this Committee will:

1. Continuously review and, if necessary, revise student evaluation instruments, student evaluation systems, and the administrative logistics of a student evaluation process of faculty performance;
2. Consult with individual departments to receive suggestions and feedback;
3. Consult with the Personnel Policies Committee to ensure that the student evaluation process conforms to the relevant sections of the Faculty Handbook;
4. Determine whether and how such student evaluations should be required of all students and whether individual faculty or departmental evaluations should be required or simply recommended;
5. Improve student response rates as much as possible;
6. Create methods for reporting evaluation data in a clear, concise manner which allows individual faculty, department chairs, and the Committee on Tenure and Promotion to understand the results within context;
7. Oversee the process of designing and soliciting in‐depth student evaluations from a sample of current and former students;
8. Regularly report their work and bring major revisions forward to the Faculty Development Committee, the Personnel Policies Committee, the Faculty Senate and the Full Faculty;
9. Function as a subcommittee of the Faculty Development Committee, with members appointed by the Faculty Development Committee. That membership will include, but not be limited to, representation from the Dean’s office and each College division. The exact number and composition of the Committee may vary at the discretion of the Faculty Development Committee;
10. Oversee implementation of the student evaluation of faculty performance system with the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and her/his staff, who will be responsible for administering that system.