A campus of The California
State University
Office of the Academic
Senate • One Washington Square • San
Jose, California 95192-0024
•408-924-2440 Fax: 408-924-2451
SS-S06-6
At its
meeting of
SENSE OF THE SENATE RESOLUTION
GUIDELINES
WHEREAS: The Professional
Standards Committee requires information on the degree of consensus in the
Academic Senate with respect to the four inter-connected key elements proposed
in AS 1310; and
WHEREAS: One of the key
elements in AS 1310 was the proposal to help guide our probationary faculty by
creating guidelines which would better direct them in deciding which types of
achievement would be considered to be scholarly, artistic or professional by
their peers and what type of documentation should be supplied in the dossier to
verify the achievement and assess the quality of the achievement; and
WHEREAS: Individuals at the
department, school or division level are likely to be the most qualified in
recognizing appropriate achievements and how to evaluate them; and
WHEREAS: Several other
universities in the CSU system have adopted mandatory guidelines of a nature
similar to that being proposed; therefore be it
RESOLVED: That the Senate endorses the concept of providing
instructions to faculty members who will undergo a performance review and
individuals responsible for reviewing the performance of that individual by the
mandatory creation of department-developed guidelines which specify: 1) the
types of achievements to be considered scholarly, artistic or professional, 2)
the documentation required to verify an achievement has occurred, 3) the method
by which a type of achievement is evaluated and 4) the documentation required
to evaluate the quality of an achievement.