This Toolkit for Conversations and Considerations about Faculty Evaluation provides resources for campuses of the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) interested in revisiting their faculty evaluation processes with a particular lens toward realigning those processes, as needed, with the institution’s specific mission, strategic goals, values, and commitments.
This Toolkit honors to the complexity of faculty work, the distinctiveness of institutional context, and the challenges of implementing faculty evaluation processes that are, on the one hand, robust, rigorous, and systematic, and on the other, holistic, developmental, and fair.
Campus members who oversee, implement, or support faculty evaluation processes are encouraged to explore these pages and adopt or adapt any resources to the specific needs and cultures of their specific campus.
Toolkit Structure & Contents
The Toolkit contains two parts:
- Effective Faculty Evaluation: Principles & Concerns — Before revising or adding any specific processes or practices in faculty evaluation, familiarize yourself with these principles and concerns.
- Tools for Revising Processes & Practices — When you’re ready to address specific parts of your campus’s faculty evaluation, consult the tools on this page.
Within these two parts, you’ll find specific tools, literature reviews, background information, and more.
See the more detailed sitemap of the Faculty Evaluation site by clicking the image to the right, or click here to access the PDF.
The Toolkit was developed as a collaboration across ACS campuses as part of a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. To learn more about the grant project, the teams and campuses involved, and the development and piloting of these resources, visit the “About This Project” page.