Common use of Class Visits Clause in Contracts

Class Visits. a. For each rehiring evaluation (tenure-track and long-term visiting), and each conversion evaluation, there will be two class visits in the semester prior to the evaluation. b. For each tenure and promotion evaluation, there will be one class visit in the spring semester prior to the evaluation year and one class visit in the fall semester of the evaluation year. c. For each senior evaluation of a tenured professor not being evaluated for promotion and each rehiring evaluation of a senior regular non-tenure-track faculty member, no class visit is required. d. In each evaluation case of a faculty member who is less than full time, or who takes a leave of absence when a class visit would be scheduled, the divisional chair, in consultation with the program director(s) and the ▇▇▇▇ of the college, may reschedule some or all class visits, without decreasing the number of them. e. At the beginning of each semester, the ▇▇▇▇ of the college will make a list of all faculty members scheduled for class visits. f. Each divisional chair, in consultation with the director of the relevant programs, will select class visitors for all those faculty members who need class visits, and whose teaching is primarily in that division. g. Additional class visits may be arranged by the divisional chairs, in consultation with the evaluatee, at the request of the evaluatee. h. Class visits will be arranged by the 4th Wednesday of each semester. i. Before each visit, the visitor will arrange the date for the visit with the evaluatee, and will discuss the purpose and scope of the course, texts, special procedures or techniques, and the relationship between the class visited and the whole course. j. During the class visit, the visitor should remain throughout the entire seminar, class, studio, or laboratory, unless a shorter time is agreed upon beforehand. k. The visitor will discuss the class that was visited with the evaluatee, with the aims of assisting the latter in improving his or her teaching. The visitor will make a written report of his or her observations on the conduct of the class, no later than two weeks after the class visit. A copy of the final report will be given to the evaluatee, and a copy will be placed in the evaluation file, no later than the 13th week of the semester.