4.4. NON-TENURE-TRACK FACULTY EVALUATION

All faculty holding non-tenure-track appointments will be evaluated annually as appropriate to the particular appointment. The department head will evaluate annually all non-tenure-track faculty members holding Teaching,^[1] Clinical,^[2] or Faculty of Practice^[3] appointments within the department. A non-tenure-track faculty member holding a Research^[4] appointment will be evaluated by the principal investigator(s) of the research grant or contract, or, if the principal investigator(s) are not able to perform the evaluation, by the department head. Each academic department will be responsible for establishing procedures in the departmental bylaws for the regular review of all non-tenure-track faculty members.

The scope of a non-tenure-track faculty member’s evaluation will be determined by the assigned duties specified in the faculty member’s appointment letter, and the standards for evaluation should be consistent with the relevant standards of performance for teaching, research, and service as defined at UTC. Reporting of evaluation results should be consistent within the academic department and the college and are subject to the approval of the dean. The records of non-tenure-track faculty member evaluations will be maintained within the academic department and the Faculty Records Office.