FACULTY EVALUATION
Overview
To foster excellence in teaching and learning, ACC, with guidance from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), evaluates the job performance of all faculty members. This process begins with student evaluations, which are conducted each Fall in every section taught, including Distance Learning sections. In addition, each faculty member completes and submits a self-evaluation each Spring (known as a Faculty Input Form), and finally, faculty members submit portfolios according to the College’s three- year portfolio schedule. The Department’s Faculty Evaluation Committee, in consultation with the Department Chair, is responsible for conducting peer review of these elements each Spring semester. See the Appendix for a sample of the evaluation forms used by the Committee.
The self-evaluation Faculty Input Form (See Appendix) is submitted by each faculty member in the Spring semester. This form provides the opportunity to respond in a thoughtful and detailed way to comments from students and the statistical analysis from students’ evaluations of you and your course, and to document your plans for instructional performance gains in the coming year. Adjunct faculty failing to submit the Faculty Input Form by the college deadline may be removed from the eligibility list.
Peer evaluation of instructional performance is based on review of a portfolio conducted by the Department’s Faculty Evaluation Committee composed of full-time faculty members. The portfolio showcases your instructional performance by demonstrating how you teach and assess student learning of a “single significant subject,” allowing you to illustrate what you do in a class and explain how and why you do it.
Austin Community College and the Government Department require full participation in the faculty evaluation process. Faculty failing to participate in the faculty evaluation process (for instance, failing to conduct student evaluations, submit a portfolio or submit a Faculty Input Form) will receive an Overall Rating of Unacceptable and may be removed from the eligibility list.
Note: The phrase “single significant subject” describes a section of a course. You may interpret “single significant subject” as narrowly as a single topic such as the Executive, Legislative, or Judicial branches or as broadly as an entire unit such as Institutions. The subject should be substantial enough to provide the Faculty Evaluation Committee with enough material to fairly evaluate your instructional performance.
Portfolios are due by the first Friday in November of the academic year. Adjunct faculty failing to submit required portfolios by the college deadline may be removed from the eligibility list.