Evaluations

See below for more information about the annual review process.

If you are looking for information about course evaluations, see the teaching and learning section of this website.

About the Annual Review Process

Annual performance evaluations of both tenured and non-tenured faculty is conducted as either an annual review or a pre-promotion (“third-year”) review. The reviews are conducted each spring and cover teaching, scholarship, advising, service, and engagement with the holistic college mission during the preceding calendar year. They comprise the following steps:

1. The faculty member submits a self-assessment report to the departmental chairperson. The report consists of a list of academic activities from the previous year and a narrative section which includes a statement of professional goals for the following year. The report is used by the chairs and deans in evaluating performance of individual faculty members.
2. The departmental chairperson schedules a conference with each faculty member to discuss the self-assessment and goals.
3. The departmental chairperson completes an initial written evaluation of faculty members in the department. In the event that the faculty member and departmental chairperson have differences, the faculty member may submit a response to the chairperson’s comments and both statements are forwarded to the divisional dean.
4. For provisional faculty members, the departmental chairperson and divisional dean arrive at a mutually acceptable statement for transmission, and this is forwarded together with the faculty dossier to the Provost.

How to Complete the Annual Review

How to complete your faculty annual review 

Goal

The goal of the Annual Review is to provide an annual opportunity for the faculty member and department chair to review and reflect upon the faculty member’s work, in an effort to support and engender growth. Together, the faculty member and chair will discuss:

• How chairs can best support faculty members in their ongoing work
• How faculty members can best align their talents and efforts with the strategic objectives of Hope College

Details

• The academic calendar review cycle includes summer, fall and spring terms. The cycle begins the day after graduation and goes through the next graduation date.
  • For example, May 5, 2024–May 4, 2025
  • Faculty are encouraged to enter forthcoming activities that are scheduled to occur late in the spring semester, even if they have not yet taken place (for example: presenting at a conference or a publication going to print).
• All full-time faculty will complete an annual review or third-year review each year.
• This process will utilize FAR (Faculty Activity Reporting) data and all known data should be in FAR by mid-March.
• The review document should be brief and not exhaustive; writing it should not be onerous for faculty and chairs to complete.
• Goals should be ambitious; in other words, setting realistic but challenging goals is encouraged.

Review Deadlines

• The annual Faculty Activity Report will include information entered from the Monday after graduation (previous year) to the Sunday of graduation (current year).  
• Faculty member submits their Annual Review form by March 15
• Chair meets with faculty member to discuss review before April 15
• Faculty member confirms they've met with the chair by selecting from the drop-down box in the workflow by April 16
• Chair also confirms meeting and submits the workflow to the dean by April 17
• Dean reviews each annual review and submits to the provost office by May 3