V.    EVALUATION OF TENURED FACULTY

The development of tenured faculty members entails:

a.  At least maintaining the high quality of teaching required for tenure;

b.  growing intellectual activity and achievement in the field;

c.  as time goes on, increasing academic citizenship. 

      Near the end of the first post-tenure year, each faculty member will devise a four-year plan of development; four years later and, thereafter, near the end of every fifth academic year (for most faculty, in rough alignment with the leave cycle), he or she will prepare a five-year plan of development.*  (In special circumstances, the dean may grant an extension of a year or so.)  The plan should have as a preamble and generating point a personal narrative which traces professional growth in teaching, intellectual activity and achievement, and academic citizenship during the previous five years--or seven years in the case of the newly tenured person devising the first plan during the first post-tenure year.  It should propose concrete ways of meeting the expectations for development listed above, focusing on the areas listed in "The Faculty Handbook" IXF.  Just after the plan is devised, it should be examined and commented on by the department head; its final form should be acceptable to both the head and the faculty member.  This plan will be forwarded to the appropriate academic dean, who may exercise whatever oversight he or she deems appropriate.  The department head will consult with the dean on how best to prepare the head's own plan; ordinarily the head will also consult with someone in his or her discipline in the course of devising it.

      *While tenured members of the Physical Education/Athletics Department fall under these guidelines, non-tenured members with faculty status are evaluated annually by the department head under guidelines developed by the head and approved by the Dean of the College.

      Every year the department head will discuss with each tenured person how he or she is developing professionally, in light of the plan and new opportunities.  The conference will be based on the annual "Faculty Activities Report," to which the plan will be appended.  It will occur a few weeks after submission of the FAR.  While the conversation will take up the specific activities of the past year, it will also evaluate, using the plan, the faculty member's overall development in teaching, intellectual activity, and academic citizenship.  

      At the end of five years (four years, in the case of the first plan), a review of what has been achieved under the plan will be carried out by, successively, the faculty member, the department head, and the appropriate academic dean.  First, the faculty member will write a review of his or her work during the five years, making specific reference to the plan and activities.  This review will also serve as the personal narrative which prefaces the new plan, which will be constructed at the same time as the review of the old plan.  Then the department head will study and critically evaluate the review, writing a letter of evaluation to the faculty member.  At this point the department head will also examine and comment on the newly proposed plan, working with the faculty member until it is acceptable to both.  Finally, the dean will receive a copy of the review and the new plan, plus the department head's letter, and will exercise whatever oversight he or she deems appropriate.