Principles

  1. The School shall have the primary responsibility for evaluating its tenured and non-tenured tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty. Throughout the evaluation process, School evaluations shall be given the weight that appropriately reflects this responsibility.
  2. The recommendations in the decision-making process shall be based on documented and verifiable evidence and the review process shall be transparent.
  3. Throughout the process, the principle of confidentiality shall be respected.
  4. Review processes at each level shall include appropriate evaluations of performance in teaching, scholarship, and service. The instrument for conducting the review (rubric) is appended to this policy (see below). These evaluations shall become part of the individual evaluation file housed in the Office of Academic Affairs.
  5. Review processes at each level shall be limited to professionally relevant considerations and shall include documented evidence of performance from the faculty member, students, other faculty, and College- and University-level administrators. The documented evidence shall be part of the individual evaluation dossier.
  6. The justification for or against reappointment shall be clearly stated in writing and maintained in the faculty member's evaluation dossier at every step in the process.
  7. The School and College procedures not determined by Policy, Evaluation of Non-Tenured Tenure-Track Faculty, and Tenured Faculty shall be developed and approved by tenure-track faculty comprising these Schools. Such procedures shall be made available to the faculty in these Schools.

Criteria

Faculty shall be evaluated annually. This annual review process, which will include all faculty, tenured track and tenured faculty, and will replace past post-tenure review processes for faculty at KSU during 2022-2023. Recommendations and decisions for reappointment shall be based on the evaluation of performance in teaching, scholarly/creative activities, and service with specific reference to successful student credit hour production (SCHP) using program economics for program-related viability metrics, weighted SCHP will be based upon percentage defined in contract for teaching (as it varies across 12 and 9 month faculty, and those will additional university service/grant attainment).

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