1. New/Early Career Faculty
Faculty Annual
Review (FAR) Workshop
December 2nd, 2016
1:00 – 2:30 pm; SAGE 222
Target Audience:
New/Early Career Faculty
What is the Faculty Annual Review? How FAR do I have to go when preparing one? How important is the self-reflection narrative?
This workshop will help you to prepare this very important component of merit pay and tenure and promotion decisions.

2. What is the role of the faculty annual review?
Facilitators
Kimberly Flint-Hamilton Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, ALANA’IA
Andrew Larson Professor of Music and Interim Associate Dean for School of Music
Carolyn Nicholson Professor and Dennis C. McNamara, Sr. Endowed Chair of Marketing; Chair, Tenure & Promotion Committee
Rajni Shankar-Brown Associate Professor and Jessie Ball duPont Chair Social Justice Education
Julia Metzker Executive Director, Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence
Think | Pair | Share
What is the role of the faculty annual review?

3. Notes: You will … Today’s Goals The FAR is formative AND summative …
describe the FAR and explain its role of the FAR in tenure- promotion and merit review process
interpret the FAR schedule and feedback process
compose an appropriate FAR narrative
identify and assign appropriate artifacts as evidence to support the narrative
contextualize impediments
honestly and critically self-evaluate teaching, scholarship, and service/leadership with respect to expectations for tenure- promotion
The FAR is formative AND summative …
Notes:

4. Think | Pair | Share How will you use the FAR to GLOW? to GROW?
in your teaching/librarianship
THINK: Review the Teaching (Librarianship) evaluation Rubric
Jot down one idea of an accomplishment you want to humble-brag about (achievements and accomplishments) ;
Jot down one area that you desire to develop and/or improve (enhancement opportunities).
PAIR and SHARE with your partner.
Julia

5. Notes: Early-/mid-January: Early February: Submit to your chair
The FAR is an important component of T&P …
Notes:
Important Dates
Early-/mid-January:
Memo from the Office of the Provost
Download 2016 FAR form
Check for any changes to the process
Early February: Submit to your chair
Early Mar: Chair provides comments to you
Early March: You respond to your chair (optional)
Mid--March: Chair submits FAR to dean
May: Dean sends merit letter to you

6. Revisit that single area of development that you identified …
THINK | PLAN | SHARE
Revisit that single area of development that you identified …
Develop a multi-year plan for what meeting/exceeding standards for that area of development.
How will you know that you have been successful?
Discuss at your table
Your Plan:

7. Reflect on your accomplishments & challenges Describe the context
Tell your story!
Reflect on your accomplishments & challenges
Describe the context
Use evidence to support your narrative
Specific
Teaching evidence by course
Objective and subjective
Work in progress
Remember! You’re building an evidence trail. Evidence supports your claims in your narratives, in your FAR reports, and in your portfolios!
FAR
FAR Response
2-year Review
Don’t forget the role of the FAR response from your chair or program director!
Indicate how you have/will address feedback through faculty development activities in 2-yr, 4-yr, tenure, promotion narratives.

8. Q&A Notes:

9. Who is your accountability buddy?
Action Plan
My Goal:
Completed by?
Step 1:
Step 2:
Step 3:
Step 4:
Who is your accountability buddy?
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