By now, all provosts and department heads have received the report from the administrative evaluations conducted by faculty. Each department head received his or her own evaluation. Each provost received his or her own evaluation as well as the evaluation for each department head who reports to him or her. Dr. Meadows received the evaluations for each provost.
85 faculty (40%) responded to the provost evaluation and 96 (46%) responded to the department head evaluation. This was the first time in PJCFA’s history that it had conducted administrative evaluations.
PJCFA believes that continual assessment is important in every area of the College. The purpose of faculty evaluation of administrators is to annually provide administrators with valuable faculty feedback regarding administrator internal performance. Regular evaluation encourages open communication, healthy interchange of information, and a shared sense of responsibility for the College’s direction. Evaluation allows faculty to recognize administrators for outstanding achievement as well as identify areas where improvement is needed.
I have heard from one provost and one department head regarding the evaluations. In each case, the response was positive, thanking PJCFA for the opportunity to hear from the faculty about how they were doing their job. That's what the evaluation is about - opening the channels of communication so that working together we can make PJC the best college possible for our students.
Once again, I would like to thank those faculty who worked on developing evaluation questions and particularly Michelle Haggard who was the impetus for this. Job well done!
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I hope the provosts send department head evaluations to Dr. Meadows.
Next time can we please have a little more time to complete these evaluations? I think that we would have had a higher response if we had more time. This was a good first time effort. Thank you for restarting something we used to do (many years ago).
Keep doing those evaluations!
Obviously faculty isn't entirely comfortable with evaluations yet. If they are writing they restrict themselves to writing non-identifying comments. In informal settings everyone has some horrible story about one of the Js.
These people are only consistent at one thing and that is being bad. They can only muster table manners when they think you are looking. Fortunate enough densoros probably think people might be watching, but that's only after a lot of screaming by a lot of people.
The effectiveness of mid-term grades might be a good thing to blog about. I know that some people didn’t like that surprise. In general we don’t want to be surprised. We like providing input on all decisions regarding the classroom. Administrators are not in the classroom. Their vision might not be our vision. And we don’t want people in suits seeing visions. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
I’ll tell you what my opinion is of mid-term grades. Students, if they are going to have problems, usually have problems well before the mid-term point. I don’t think publishing mid-term grades increases student achievement. If anything, students get tired near the end of the term and calculate how low they can perform on final exams to still get that B or C they want. I believe that time could be better used.
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands. If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands. If you’re happy and you know it, and your feet will surely show it, If your happy and you know it clap your hands. We know where I am going next. The beloved does not feel loved when they hear comments that pertain to the unbeloved.
There is a correlation between happiness and compensation. Year after year we have heard times are tough. They are so tough. We may not see a raise this year, and maybe the next two or three. Well, bullshit. Florida state community college allocations are public. We do comparatively recap PJC’s years. Recently administration did have to admit that the state had been very, very, very good to PJC. Actually, salary planning just was last on the priority list. It would have been nice if it would have been first, but that would have taken actual planning.
We’ll see what the new president does.
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