It was moved by Cvetkovich, seconded by Prody, and passed unanimously, to charge the UPC to include the development of the campus computing environment as part of its regular planning responsibilities, with a particular charge to attend to computing and information needs peculiar to academicians. It was moved by Warner, seconded by Simpson, to adopt the language changes to pages 8 and 13 of the current Faculty Handbook regarding post-tenure review. Preliminary discussion of Faculty Personnel Assessment Hearne opened the debate on the assessment of faculty performance that is expected to result in policy changes to be adopted on March 9. Senator Dietrich stated that the English department had experienced a huge turnover and it was determined that its evaluation should come from the department. Each faculty is also required to do a self-assessment.
Faculty are generally pleased with the model created.
Senator Simpson noted that evaluation is a good thing. He questioned whether faculty find evaluations hostile. He felt that problems arise in those departments which do not have standards and in departments where there is distrust of the department chair. People are usually evaluated in terms of gross incompetence. He stated that student evaluations should be treated as part of the picture.