CU-Boulder: Administrator Appraisal Program

Administrator Appraisal Program

The Administrator Appraisal Program (AAP) is directed by the Boulder Faculty Assembly (BFA) with technical support and implementation by the Office of Planning, Budget, and Analysis. It is designed to foster high quality academic administration on the Boulder campus and to encourage administrators to be responsive to faculty concerns.

In 2000 the Program was substantially revised to yield more in-depth feedback, with major influence on personnel decisions, by focusing an expanded, performance-based appraisal on administrators at the time of their review or reappointment. New AAP Committee policies were put into effect at that time.

The AAP Committee (current members are listed here) began a review of its policies during the 2007 evaluation cycle and decided to revise them, in order both to clarify particular components (e.g., the evaluation timeline, eligible raters) and to reflect procedural changes (e.g., adding a neutral category to the five-point effectiveness scale, moving from paper to web-based appraisal forms). The revised committee policies were approved by the BFA in September 2009.

Policies

Committee Policies, effective September 2009, BFA Motion M-083109
BFA Bylaws, Article VI Section 8a (establishment of the AAP Committee)
BFA Motion M-5-0300 (appraisal process; Committee composition)
BFA Motion M-11-1101 (response rate criterion)
Pre-fall 2009 Committee Policies, no longer in effect
- Policies 9/2000-8/2009
- Policies 1992-1998

Reports

Appraisal Forms

2012-13

Administrator Appraisal Forms

James F. Williams, II, Dean of Libraries
Although dean of the College of Music would typically be up for review this year, Dean Sher announced his resignation in August of 2012, so no evaluation of the Music dean was required this year.

Satisfaction Survey form--evaluation of campus-wide issues. Administered separately in '12-'13 to all eligible AAP faculty members not evaluating the above dean; also included with the dean's appraisal form.

2011-12

Administrator Appraisal Forms

Robert H. Davis, Dean, College of Engineering & Applied Science
Although the regular cycle would have called for the dean of Arts & Sciences to be evaluated this year, because Dean Gleeson resigned in August of 2011 and a new dean, Steven Leigh, replaced him in July, 2012, no evaluation of the dean of Arts & Sciences was done this time.

Satisfaction Survey form -- The all-campus satisfaction survey items were only administered as part of dean Davis's evaluation this year. See the dean's appraisal form above for these items. They are typically administered as a separate campus-wide survey to all eligible AAP faculty every other year.

2010-11

Administrator Appraisal Forms

Satisfaction Survey form--evaluation of campus-wide issues. Administered separately in '10-'11 to all faculty members not evaluating a dean; otherwise included with each dean's appraisal form.