Standard 6: FACULTY MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORT

Standard 6: FACULTY MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORT

Standard 6: The school has well-documented and well-communicated processes to manage and support faculty members over the progression of their careers that are consistent with the school’s mission, expected outcomes, and strategies. [FACULTY MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORT]

Basis for Judgment

● Faculty management processes systematically assign faculty responsibilities to individuals. These processes fulfill the school’s mission while setting realistic expectations for individual faculty members.

● The school communicates performance expectations to faculty members clearly and in a manner that allows timely performance.

● Faculty assignments may reflect differences in expectations for different faculty members. However, workloads from all activities are reasonably distributed across all faculty members.

● Faculty evaluation, promotion, and reward processes are systematic and support the school’s mission.

● The school has effective processes for providing orientation, guidance, mentoring, and inclusive practices for faculty.

● In an alternative delivery model, describe how teaching assistants, tutors, or other staff are managed and supported.

● The school has an overall faculty resource plan that reflects its mission and that projects faculty resource requirements and anticipated resource actions.

● Policies guiding faculty scholarship should be clear and consistent with the mission and with expected outcomes from intellectual contributions.

● Faculty evaluation and performance systems recognize and include intellectual contributions outcomes in the assessment of faculty performance.

Guidance for Documentation

● Describe processes for assigning faculty responsibilities to individuals.

● Describe processes for determining performance expectations for faculty.

● Describe evaluation, promotion, and reward processes, as well as ways that faculty are engaged in these processes.

● Describe processes for orientation, guidance, and mentoring of faculty, including for individuals who support alternative delivery models.

● Describe processes and practices that advance diversity and inclusion among faculty.

● Describe the overall faculty resource plan.

● Document that intellectual contributions are incorporated into the assessment of faculty performance.