Dear COEHD Faculty,
Please see the email below from VPAA regarding an update on faculty evaluations.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Thank you.
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Liliana Gutierrez, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs
College of Education and Human Development
The University of Texas at San Antonio
DT Campus: DB 4.226
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Subject: Update on Faculty Evaluations
Importance: High
Dear Faculty Colleagues,
In late April, we sent out updated guidance and made modifications to processes for upcoming faculty reviews — understanding and recognizing that your teaching, scholarly and creative
productivity might be affected by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and these challenging circumstances. We now have additional guidance on peer observations for tenure and promotion (T&P) and comprehensive periodic evaluations (CPE) as we have been provided
more information through the tactical teams on what fall will look like.
Not all faculty going up for evaluation were able to complete their peer observation in Spring 2020 due to the change in modality resulting from
the pandemic. We understand that the remote course you put in place for Spring 2020 may not have been ideal for peer observation. Therefore the following guidance has been put into place to meet the peer observation requirement but give faculty some flexibility
if it was not conducted in Spring 2020.
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If you have had a peer observation in the last 3 years you can use that for your T&P or CPE.
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If your last peer observation was greater than 3 years, you will need to do a new peer observation based on your Fall course prior to the due date of your review materials
(T&P- Sept. 30th and CPE- Sept. 15th). However, you can include your last peer observation with your new observation if you wish.
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Each faculty member is allowed to do a new peer observation if they choose for their package materials.
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As outlined in
HOP 2.20, the peer observers must meet with the faculty member prior to the class observation. This meeting is essential to faculty undergoing observation to ensure they can provide context and other key information before being observed.
We will continue to monitor the situation and make changes as needed to our processes. We deeply appreciate everything you are doing to ensure that our educational, research and service
missions continue.
Sincerely,
Heather
Heather Shipley Ph.D.
Senior Vice Provost of Academic Affairs and Dean of University College
Burzik Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering
MB 4.120
210-458-4110