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The basic categories of faculty performance at KSU are teaching, scholarship and creative activity, and professional service. In addition, faculty are to highlight activities promoting student success in at least one of these three areas. The Faculty Performance Agreement delineates the relative emphasis of an individual faculty member’s activities in these three areas. The typical faculty member will focus work in the specific areas that reflect their knowledge and expertise in advancing the University’s mission. In all cases, evaluation of faculty performance will be based on evidence of the quality and significance (see KSU Faculty Handbook Section 3.4) of the individual faculty member’s scholarly accomplishments in respective areas of emphasis. Faculty for whom a different model would be more appropriate will collaborate with their chair/director in the selection of that model. A faculty member’s strengths, interests, and past three years’ annual reviews will serve as the primary guide to the selection of the model.
Kennesaw State University is committed to the success of all its students. Student success is at the core of the University’s mission and arises from those activities that help promote the academic and professional development and achievement of its undergraduate and graduate students. Those activities include, but are not limited to, “effective advising and mentoring; undergraduate and graduate research; other forms of experiential learning; engagement in other high impact practices; the development of student success tools and curricular materials; strategies to improve student career success; involvement in faculty development activities; and other activities identified by the institution to deepen student learning.” (BoR Faculty and Student Affairs Handbook 4.4)
At Kennesaw State University, student success is embedded within the three basic categories of faculty performance-teaching, scholarship and creative activity, and professional service. As such, their evaluation is also embedded within these categories. While faculty often engage in student success activities that span all three basic categories, they must demonstrate student success activities in at least one of the three categories. They can do this by including products of student success in their evaluation documents. Focusing in one area allows faculty to strategically target meaningful and impactful activities.
Kennesaw State University encourages faculty to pursue continuous professional growth throughout their careers. Continuous professional growth for faculty can occur in their teaching, scholarship and creative activity, and/or professional service, and can range broadly from attending CETL or professional conference workshops to implementing new techniques and ideas into their classrooms to building their scholarship. Like student success, faculty should identify how they will pursue continuous professional growth in at least one area of their teaching, scholarship and creative activity, and/or professional service in their FPA. Faculty will then annually record their progress in the narrative for their ARD.
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