Individuals can get access to personnel files, however, we have not traditionally made them public. It opens up potential problems if all evaluations are made public. The Deans feel that if the administrator evaluations are open, then all evaluations should be as well. We may bring in TBR legal counsel to discuss this. My experience is that it is not best to make the evaluations public, even though by law, anyone has a right to request to see them.
Evaluations are primarily for the purpose of improvement.
The person needing the information is the person being evaluated. The evaluation of administrators was done by the Senate several years ago, and is currently conducted by the Senate. I am not sure where the student evaluation of instructors originates from. If courses are added at the end of the registration process, they have to be entered individually. I want us to explore a way to do this better and would prefer to wait until then to put this in place.