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Department chairs are responsible for the regular review of part-time adjunct faculty members who teach face-to-face and online classes within their department. This should include class observations, review of student evaluations of teaching and discussion about performance. Normally, the review of part-time adjunct faculty will be conducted by the department chair. The department chair may delegate this responsibility to another full-time member or ask that another full-time member of the department participate in the review process. In extraordinary cases, the part-time faculty member may ask the academic dean (for the day program) or the Dean of Simpson Online and Graduate Studies (for the online and graduate program) to have someone other than the department chair conduct the review.
Each semester, the department chair or her/his degrees will review each part-time adjunct faculty member’s student evaluations of teaching and take appropriate action as is warranted regarding the continued performance of the part-time faculty member. In addition to regularly reviewing student evaluations of teaching, department chairs are encouraged to regularly observe the classes of part-time faculty, including those classes taught online.
The Dean of Simpson Online and Graduate Studies will also review the student evaluations of teaching of all part-time faculty members and bring to the attention of the department chair any concerns they might have about faculty performance.
All part-time adjunct faculty members will have a comprehensive review by their department chair or his/her designee in the first semester and their sixth semester of teaching at the college. The review will consist of an in-class observation, review of student evaluations of teaching, and a face-to-face conversation. For online courses, a review of the online course using an online course quality rubric will substitute for the in-class observation portion of the review. At the conclusion of the review, the person conducting the review will create a letter summarizing the performance of the faculty member, including any recommendations for improvement. Within two weeks of completing the review, a copy of the letter is sent to the faculty member and to the Dean of Simpson Online and Graduate Studies for review and inclusion in the faculty member’s file.
After the sixth semester review, part-time faculty members are eligible for an increase in stipend. The department chair will make this recommendation to the Dean of Simpson Online and Graduate Studies.
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