Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3339 - Miami University › Chapter 3339-7 - Tenured and Nontentured Staff › Section 3339-7-05 - Annual review of probationary members of the instructional staff

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Each department
			 will establish a committee to initiate tenure recommendations. The membership
			 of this committee is to be determined by the department. In each year of the
			 probationary period, the instructional staff member submits to the department a
			 report of professional activities that addresses the tenure criteria.
			 Subsequently, the department chair or program director (when appropriate),
			 after consultation with the department tenure committee, prepares an annual
			 written evaluation of the member's accomplishments; an evaluation that will
			 provide an assessment of the member's progress toward tenure, including
			 strengths and weaknesses and specific recommendations for improvement. The
			 evaluation prepared by the department chair or program director (when
			 appropriate) must be reviewed and formally acknowledged by the department
			 tenure committee, and the probationer before forwarding to the dean, so that
			 errors of fact and omission might be eliminated. Tenure eligible faculty with a
			 dual appointment must elect their tenure initiating department and division
			 (Oxford or regional) by December 31, 2016. The initiating department and
			 division will be responsible for preparing the annual evaluation. The
			 evaluation must be reviewed and formally acknowledged by both the Oxford and
			 regional deans.
(B) Concerns
			 regarding professional collegiality should be shared as promptly as possible
			 with the person whose behavior is questioned. Notice of uncollegiality must be
			 given to that person in writing no later than his or her next annual evaluation
			 after occurrence of the behavior considered uncollegial.
(C) In the event the tenure committee's
			 evaluation differs from that of the chair or program director (when
			 appropriate), the tenure committee shall forward its evaluation to the
			 probationer, with a copy to the dean of the regional campuses (when
			 appropriate). Such evaluations are subsequently reviewed by the dean, and then
			 officially transmitted to the probationer. Whenever the dean's evaluation
			 differs from that of the department chair, the program director (when
			 appropriate) or the department tenure committee, the dean must so inform the
			 staff member, the chair, the program director (when appropriate), the
			 committee, and the dean of the regional campuses (when appropriate), in
			 writing, citing the basis for the judgment.
(D)
								
								Begining the third year of qualifying service
			 and continuing throughout the candidate's probationary
			 period, the department tenure committee will also prepare a separate
			 written evaluation of the instructional staff member's progress toward tenure,
			 including strengths and weaknesses and specific recommendations for
			 improvement, and share that evaluation with the probationer and the department
			 chair or program director (when appropriate). The chair or program director
			 (when appropriate) will also write an evaluation of the probationer's progress
			 toward tenure.
(E) The provost
			 reviews the evaluations in the third, fourth, and fifth years of a candidate's
			 probationary period. Whenever the provost's evaluation differs from what has
			 already been recorded, this judgment, with reasons, will be reported in writing
			 to the candidate, the department tenure committee, the department chair, the
			 program director (when appropriate), and the dean. The complete documentation
			 should also be distributed to the dean of the regional campuses (when
			 appropriate).
(F) Early in the
			 candidate's final year of probationary service, the department tenure committee
			 undertakes a review of his or her cumulative professional record and makes a
			 positive or negative recommendation for tenure to the department chair or
			 program director (when appropriate). After receiving the department tenure
			 committee's recommendation, the department chair or program director (when
			 appropriate) makes a positive or negative recommendation. The candidate's
			 application is then advanced to the dean, who makes a positive or negative
			 recommendation. The university promotion and tenure committee then considers
			 all candidates who have received a positive recommendation from the department
			 committee, the department chair, the program director (when appropriate), or
			 the dean. Candidates who receive a positive recommendation from the university
			 promotion and tenure committee are advanced to the provost for consideration.
			 Candidates who receive the provost's positive recommendation are advanced to
			 the president. Candidates receiving the positive recommendation of the
			 president are advanced to the board of trustees for final action.