• If the performance remains deficient, the plan will provide for the imposition of serious sanctions; and will • Be signed by the faculty member (signature only denotes receipt of the plan and not necessarily agreement), the Division Director, and the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Services. The process to establish a performance improvement plan must: • Be fair and consistent; • Contain clearly stated criteria and define minimal standards of performance, including definitions of expectations in teaching and College/community service; • Complement existing faculty evaluation procedures; • Respect and recognize differences in discipline-related pedagogy; and • Include regular written feedback to the faculty member as well as a mechanism for faculty response to the evaluation. The faculty member who has received an overall unsatisfactory evaluation: • Is required to submit an annual progress report to the Division Director for three successive years after the plan has been initiated. The Division Director will review the report and provide a written annual evaluation to the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Services on the progress of the faculty member toward the objectives stated in the development plan. The Division Director and Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Services must find that the faculty member has achieved satisfactory progress for two consecutive years in order for the mandated professional process to cease; and • If the Division Director and the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Services do not find satisfactory progress then the following possibilities may occur: 1) an additional development plan may be written and implemented in consultation with the faculty member and the Division Director, or 2) the faculty member may be recommended to the College President for a performance dismissal. Hagerstown Community College recognizes the importance of providing employees with a disposition of grievances that may arise out of the application of a Performance Improvement Plan. As such, please review HR Policy #5-02, Board approved on September 21, 2004, as Board Approved Action #5007 as found in the HCC Employee Handbook. It is important to note that unfair applications of policy are grievable, not the policy itself. Promotion and Tenure Tenure - Faculty who wish to apply for tenure must follow the process outlined below: 1) Faculty members must submit a tenure request letter to the Division Director by the date established by the Office of Academic Affairs (Early September). 2) Faculty members must submit a tenure portfolio to their Division Director by the date established by the Office of Academic Affairs (Late January). 3) The Division Director reviews the tenure requests and portfolios and forwards everything to the VPAASS along with a letter of recommendation (Mid-February).
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