Annual Faculty Performance Review

All full-time regular faculty members must be evaluated each year. The evaluation is conducted by the department chair, division chair, or dean, depending on the administrative organization of the school or college.

The department chair, division chair, or dean, depending on the administrative organization of the school or college, will fill out the Annual Faculty Performance Evaluation Form (Opens in Box - Please download the form to your computer and open with Adobe Acrobat), and all full-time regular faculty will fill out the Planning for the Year Ahead (opens in Box) document. Each of these documents must be used in all faculty evaluations; please note the Planning Document Instructions document gives guidance for completing the Planning for the Year Ahead document.

The forms are due to the dean on February 12 of each year.

Each school or college has established its own practices regarding when the faculty members whom the chairs are evaluating would need to submit information about their accomplishments for the year to the chairs.

2024-2025 Process and Deadlines

Instructions for deans and chairs on how to enter the annual faculty review ratings in Ignite can be accessed via the HR job aid.

January 15: Faculty submit a summary of activities form to their chairs (or deans in single dept schools) unless a different date has been communicated from the dean.
Subsequently: Chairs submit evaluations to deans, and deans give feedback to chairs.
March 3: Deadline for all Chairs (or Deans) to finalize the submission of evaluation ratings in the Ignite system.
Between March 6- March 17: Chairs begin their merit recommendations.
Between March 18 - March 21: Business officers review merit recommendations.
Between March 24 - March 28: Deans finalize merit recommendations.
Between March 31 - April 11: The Office of the Provost reviews and approves merit recommendations.
May 1: Faculty contracts and pay change statements issued within Ignite.

Box Folder Instructions

This document has the instructions for accessing the BOX folders where the completed evaluations are to be placed for the Office of the Provost.