instructional duties that trigger additional compensation will be paid at the end of each term. Payment is made separately from any payroll the employee might receive for duties as, e.g., a full-time faculty member or a full-time staff.
The KYSU Board of Regents approved a Faculty Evaluation Process, which involves an annual faculty review in three areas according to a standard rubric: teaching effectiveness, high-impact practices in scholarship, and university and community service. In addition to this regular evaluation process, the Office of Online Education will implement a supplemental evaluation process for online faculty.
Once per academic year, each online faculty member will engage in an assessment of online instructional practices. This evaluation aims to facilitate continued growth as an online faculty member in the instructional practices emphasized by KYSU Online/Global.
The process involves several steps.
Notification: The Faculty Mentor initiates the evaluation process by notifying the online faculty of the details, timeline, and instruments used.
Self-evaluation: The online faculty member completes a self-evaluation survey and sends it to the Faculty Mentor along with end-of-course surveys and other selected artifacts from the relevant timeframe. Faculty may be asked to reflect on course-related data from dashboards.
Review and evaluation: The Faculty Mentor reviews these materials and instructional items such as course announcements, discussion boards, and assignment feedback. The Faculty Mentor also reviews the compliance reports from the relevant timeframe.
The Faculty Mentor completes the assessment rubric, which includes numeric ratings and substantive feedback.
The Faculty Mentor sends the assessment rubric to the online faculty member, and they communicate about the results.
Once the online faculty member has approved the assessment results, they are forwarded to the Director of Online Education for review. No further action is required unless initiated by the Director of Online Education.
The online faculty member retains a copy of the assessment to include in their regular performance evaluation process and faculty promotion portfolio (when relevant).
Each course solicits feedback from students about the class and the faculty. Once final grades have been posted, the survey results are available for the faculty member to review. The Office of Online Education and administrators, such as the Faculty Mentor, use the surveys when evaluating faculty performance of online duties.
Online faculty must adhere to online teaching standards to provide regular and substantive interaction with students while maintaining an active online presence in courses. Compliance reports track the completion of specific regular duties by the appropriate deadlines. Relevant