NOTE: The 2016 FAR will be evaluated using the 2014 rubrics. The revised rubrics will go into effect for the 2017 FAR.
On December 12, 2016 the Brown Center for Faculty Excellence and Innovation hosted a workshop for New and Early Career faculty on the Faculty Annual Review process. A short pre-flection indicated that of the 30 respondents a few (5) had very little knowledge about the FAR but many more (14) were somewhat familiar with the process. The majority were interested in seeing exemplar FARs (18) or hearing from seasoned faculty about the process (18).
Workshop 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 of the Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence
Goals
- To share information about the Faculty Annual Review (FAR) process
- To help faculty develop strong narratives with supporting evidence in your review
- evaTo support faculty development of a plan for drafting your report.
Workshop Materials & Resources
- Presentation (pdf)
- Hand-out (pdf)
- Provost Resources for Faculty Annual Review
- FAR Merit Rubrics (pdf)
2017 FAR Schedule
- Feb 13: Faculty submit complete FARs to chairs; faculty serving in the role of chair submit their individual completed FARs to deans
- Mar 13: Chairs respond in writing to faculty; deans respond in writing to faculty serving in the role of chair (Please see FAR Instructions to Chairs and Deans)
- Mar 20: Faculty responses to chairs (optional); FARs forwarded by chairs to deans
- Apr 24: Deans submit merit pay recommendations to Provost
- May 15: Provost coordinates university-wide calibration of merit pay recommendations
- May: Deans send a memo to school/college faculty explaining the general principles informing merit pay recommendations. Deans send merit letters to school/college faculty.
- September: Salary letters sent to faculty following approval of FY18 budget by the Board of Trustees and recommendations from the University Faculty Compensation Committee on distribution of market and any other equity adjustments.
This workshop will be repeated on Wed, December 14 9:00am – 10:30am in the Hand Art Center Seminar Room.
Your feedback is important to us! Please submit your feedback about the workshop by completing short survey at this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/266X79C.