MINUTES OF THE FACULTY EVALUATION AND COMPENSATION

AD HOC COMMITTEE

MEETING DATE:  OCTOBER 3, 2003

ORDER OF BUSINESS:

The meeting was called to order by the chair and the minutes of the last meeting read and approved.  A brief round of committee member introductions was conducted. 
 

The first order of business was a discussion of the student rating form. Included in this discussion were the following items:

• The questions themselves, whether they were leading questions and did they represent reasonable and fair questions.
• There was some discussion about the validity of the experimental form.
• A brief review of the new experimental form, including an explanation of how to use the form, the inclusion of potential instructor generated extra questions and the need for a set of standard instructions to accompany the form. 
• Volunteers were requested and found to use the new experimental form. 
• There was a discussion about use of the WebCT as an instrument for instructor evaluation.
• The experimental form was agreed upon to be used in the near future and possibly a brief testing on the WebCT.
   

The next order of business was a very brief discussion about supervisory evaluation of the faculty.  It was decided that the evaluation should correspond to the existing workload policy.  This item was then sent back to the sub-committee work on it.

Next considered was peer review.  Again it was decided to form a sub-committee to work on this.

THE NEXT TWO (2) MEETINGS ARE:  NOVEMBER 7, 2003 IN ROOM MSC 2E10 AND DECEMBER 12, 2003 IN ROOM MSC 2E10.  

THERE WILL BE A NEED FOR SOMEONE TO TAKE NOTES AT THE NOVEMBER MEETING AS THE SECRETARY WILL BE AT A CONFERENCE DURING THE SCHEDULED MEETING TIME.

John Singley, Committee Secretary