Part-time Faculty Association at Columbia College Chicago

The current contract, beginning in 2006, specified in section IV,9 that the College would develop and implement a “multi-measure” evaluation procedure for part-time faculty.  The college-wide Evaluation Committee (which included two P-fac members) envisioned and developed a proposal that was rejected by the Provost.  The Provost’s Office developed a more limited program emphasizing hiring and firing decisions over faculty development; this program has standardized forms and procedures but leaves evaluation criteria on quality to the departments.

Faculty are evaluated during their first semester and before they reach 51 hours, and at whatever additional times the department schedules.  You are entitled to advance notice if you will be evaluated, and P-fac strongly recommends that you discuss your department’s specific criteria and procedures beforehand with your chair or other designated evaluator.  For details of the official program, see LINK.  For P-fac’s policy objecting to the limitations of the current Evaluation program, see Evaluation Policy in Documents. If you feel you have been evaluated inadequately or unfairly, contact the P-fac office.