Common use of Purpose of Evaluations Clause in Contracts

Purpose of Evaluations. The purpose of a performance evaluation is to support and ensure excellence in teaching, adherence to high academic and professional standards, and the meeting of department or program goals. A performance evaluation also serves to protect faculty from potential negative impacts of capricious or biased student course evaluations. Adjunct Faculty members will not suffer any adverse outcome solely on the basis of student evaluations. Evaluation of Adjunct Faculty members under this Article will be made on the basis of demonstrated excellence in teaching as bargaining unit members at the University. (The Chair or Adjunct Faculty member may use other professional and academic qualifications, contributions to the field, and work of the department, program, School, or University, as relevant and appropriate, for the evaluation.) Adjunct Faculty members who have been assigned any administrative responsibilities or also occupy a staff role will be contracted and evaluated separately for those roles. Evaluation of administrative duties will not impact evaluation under this Article. The evaluation process set forth in section B-D of this Article does not apply to clinical instructors and field supervisors, whose evaluation process is set forth separately in Section E.