East Carolina University Faculty Manual

APPENDIX L.

EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY CODE

E. Five-Year Unit Program Evaluation

1. Every fifth year, beginning with the 1998-1999 academic year, each unit shall complete a self-evaluation of its operation. The appropriate vice chancellor shall give notice to the voting faculty members of the unit that they shall meet and elect by secret ballot an evaluation committee. The committee shall supervise the unit evaluation ensuring full participation by all unit faculty members. The evaluation shall include, but not be limited to, all academic programs, budgets, teaching, research, creative activity, and service activities. Expressions of student opinion concerning academic programs and teaching shall be included.

2. The dean or unit administrator shall be ineligible to serve on the evaluation committee.

3. The unit faculty members shall meet to consider the report and recommendations of the evaluation committee not later than the end of January. The report and recommendations shall be distributed to the unit faculty members not later than one week prior to the meeting. The voting faculty members of the unit shall vote by secret ballot whether or not to accept the evaluation committee's report and recommendations. Acceptance shall require three-fifths of the voting faculty members of the unit. The report and recommendations, whether accepted or not, and the vote of the unit shall be submitted to the next higher administrative official not later than thirty calendar days prior to the completion of the spring semester. The next higher administrative official shall review the report and the vote, and then forward the report through higher administrative offices to the Chancellor for review and comment. If any administrator above the unit level fails to concur with the unit's recommendation that administrator shall inform the faculty of the unit in writing of the reasons for his or her decision.

4. The unit program evaluation shall be used in the development of the unit
operational plan.

(Faculty Senate Resolution #98-28, November 1998)