Chair’s Evaluation (the Arts)
Chair’s evaluation shall be a narrative guided by the department’s goals and objectives and
incorporating the activities list below. The narrative should provide feedback to the faculty
member on what activities exceeds expectations and were faculty may improve. If you check
Exceeds Expectations or Needs Improvement, you must include a justification.
Teaching
Evidence of significant efforts to improve one’s teaching effectiveness (teaching is a learnable skill),
and evidence that the faculty member has addressed potential problem areas indicated by the
evaluations. For example, the use of student evaluations, annual evaluation, or peer reviews
assessments (such as those offered by the Teaching and Learning Center).
Teaching engages in specific interactions between faculty members and students to facilitate
student learning. Depending on the faculty’s area of expertise, the below categories are
components of the teaching role: to recognize a faculty’s knowledge and skills; interactive and
technical skills which promote learning; organizational skills involved in maintaining a classroom
or non-classroom course; and any other intentional interactions between the faculty member and
students which is significant, but not listed on the evaluation form.
To achieve Meets Expectation faculty should have evidence of teaching effectiveness, maintenance
of a level of student performance consistent with the program’s knowledge based goals, play an
active role in departmental discussions and participate in activities regarding program
development, and continued faculty development to enhance teaching skills. To Exceed
Expectations, faculty should have evidence of consistently exhibiting a leadership role in the above
categories and exceptional efforts. Need Improvement is warranted when faculty do not have
evidence of meeting the guidelines of the criterion for “meets expectations”.
Check One
Exceeds Expectations
Justification
Content Knowledge
Meets Expectations
Needs Improvement
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets Expectation
Needs Improvement
Meets Expectation
Needs Improvement
Meets Expectation
Needs Improvement
Meets Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
Instructional Design and
Delivery
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Justification
Course Management
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Justification
Faculty
Development/Collaboration
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Justification
Grantspersonship (teaching)
Scholarly/Creative Activities
Faculty members are expected to engage in research (serious inquiry or examination which results
in the creation, evaluation, dissemination and application of knowledge). Creative activities
include bringing into existence the production and design of work of art and the dissemination of
the results of those creative activities through a record of production and exhibitions.
Scholarship and Creative Activities are associated with a faculty member’s recognized area of
expertise and includes: proficiency by maintaining current in one’s discipline; discovery in the
form of conducting research or the expression of artistic endeavors appropriate to the discipline;
dissemination by publishing, exhibiting or presenting in one’s field of expertise; and the
translation of research or creative activities into new products, services or modes of expression;
and any other scholarly/creative activity which is significant to the department, but not listed on
the evaluation form.
To achieve Meets Expectation faculty should have evidence of continued recognition among one’s
peers in the faculty member’s area of expertise; recognition includes inside and outside the
university and is of continued high quality. To Exceed Expectations, faculty should have evidence
of a consistent record of research or creative activities that reveal significant achievement.
Need Improvement is warranted when the faculty fails to have evidence of not being productive
in their scholarly and creative activities at a level valued by the department.
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets Expectation
Needs Improvement
Meets Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
Discovery
and/or
Dissemination
[Exhibitions,
Performances,
Design (Works in
progress)
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Justification
Keeping
Proficiency
J
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets Expectation
Needs Improvement
Meets Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
Translation
[Performance art
based] or
Commissions
[when
appropriate]
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Justification
Grantspersonship
(scholarly/creative)
Service
By way of service, faculty may perform service at several levels; the department, college, university
and community. There is no requirement that faculty have to serve at every level. To achieve
Meets Expectation faculty should serve on committees and attend committee meetings. To meet
Exceeds Expectation, faculty should play an active role on committees and that these committees
produce a product that is valuable to the university. Needs Improvement is warranted when
faculty doesn’t serve on committees or too few committees or doesn’t attend committee meetings.
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Justification
Department
Meets Expectation
Needs Improvement
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Meets Expectation
Needs Improvement
Meets Expectation
Needs Improvement
Meets Expectation
Needs Improvement
Justification
College
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Justification
University
Check One
Exceeds Expectation
Justification
Community