How are the Chairs and Dean who perform Annual Review themselves reviewed?
Chairs have informal means of evaluation by faculty, from private conversations with colleagues to department meetings. Chairs (particularly those in larger and more complex departments) are encouraged to develop, in consultation with the department, more formal means of self-evaluation for their own personal use (e.g., using the nationally normed evaluation instrument at IDEA [www.idea.ksu.edu/Chair]). Chairs are also evaluated yearly by the Dean in the context of the fall annual review. Each summer the Dean also meets with Chairs and writes a letter assessing Chair and departmental and programmatic accomplishments for the previous year and plans for the subsequent year. The Dean also asks departments to conduct a review of Chairs who seek reappointment after their three year term. Ordinarily the Chair reminds the Dean to appoint a senior faculty member to run the election (Faculty Handbook VI.2.7.). The Dean also asks this senior member to offer a cumulative review of the Chair’s tea
