SECTION/NUMBER: TBD

APPROVED BY: Interim President Ronald A. Johnson

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 24, 2023

REVISED FROM: July 15, 2022

PURPOSE: According to House Bill 250, Section 1(g), effective April 8, 2022, the following process regarding a faculty performance review during the 2022 calendar year of term, tenured, and tenure-track faculty at Kentucky State University is adopted, effective January 26, 2023. Kentucky State University asserts the performance evaluation system is designed to share with faculty a clear understanding of their performance within the three evaluation cycles for term, tenured, and tenure-track faulty.

All faculty types participate in the annual review process unless a faculty member is undergoing Third Year Review for Pre-Tenure faculty, Tenure and Promotion Review, or Post-Tenure Review evaluation processes.

As stated in House Bill 250, subparagraph 2 of Section 1(g), “The process shall ensure a consistently high level of employee performance and shall include, but not be limited to, assessments by peers, students, and administrators. In addition to evaluating an employee’s effectiveness, growth, accomplishments, and skills, the process shall be used to identify deficiencies and ineffectiveness and redirect employee efforts to improve or increase productivity. The process shall be used as a basis for decisions on continued employment, promotion, salary increases, tenure, and maintenance of tenure; . . . the review process for tenured faculty shall include an evaluation of teaching effectiveness, research body of work, overall commitment to the mission of the university, and other criteria determined by the board and the council.”

Determining a faculty member in “good standing” is based on documented and verifiable evidence as outlined in the faculty member’s executed contract and the minimum university set performance standards in the areas of teaching, scholarship, as well as university and community service.

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