Instructional Academic Staff Evaluation Procedures

These criteria, in accordance with UW Colleges Senate Policy IP#320 apply to all Mathematics Department Instructional Academic Staff.

A. Tenets:

1. All instructional academic staff shall be evaluated.

2. Only the instructor’s instruction and professional activities that impact directly on instruction are to be evaluated.

3. The salaries on instructional academic staff are governed by a salary schedule.

4. The chair is ex-officio, non-voting for the evaluations.

B. Materials to be examined:

1. A completed “Instructional Academic Staff Activity Form” for each instructional

academic staff member.

2. Student evaluations of instruction.

3. Written reports of department conducted class visits, if available.

C. Procedures:

1. The chair is responsible for receiving and distributing the evaluation materials.

2. The materials shall be distributed to each member of the Executive Committee in advance of its meeting for evaluations.

3. Prior to the meeting, the members of the Executive Committee shall read the materials and rank each instructional staff member according to the performance ratings:

“meritorious”: exceeding expectations

“satisfactory”: meeting expectations

“unsatisfactory”: failing to fulfill expectations

4. At the evaluation meeting, the Committee will first determine if any instructional academic staff member is failing to meet expectations. A determination of an unsatisfactory rating will require a simple majority of the committee members present and voting.

5. All instructional academic staff not receiving a rating of unsatisfactory will be assigned a rating of satisfactory unless changed by the following steps:

a. Members may then nominate individual instructional academic staff for the meritorious rating.

b. After discussion and consideration of all of the instructional academic staff that have been nominated for consideration of a meritorious rating, a vote will be taken on each. A simple majority of the committee members present and voting is required for the awarding of the meritorious rating.

6. The chair will inform the instructional academic staff member and the appropriate dean of the results.