Charge:
Description: The ad hoc committee is tasked with reviewing teaching evaluation methods from other universities that don’t rely on student perceptions, and proposing a new, unbiased approach for measuring effective teaching to the faculty senate. Additionally, the committee will recommend a revised set of objective questions for student evaluations to be used in 5-year reviews.
Committee initiated on: March 28, 2024
Committee discharged on: August 21, 2025
Meeting Materials
Outcome:
Resolutions 2024-2025-11, Evaluating Faculty Instruction, and 2024-2025-12, Approval of a Revised Student Perception of Instruction (SPI) Form, were written by this committee and approved by the Faculty Senate in spring 2025. Resolution 2024-2025-12 was subsequently approved by the provost, and the updated SPI form will take effect at the end of the fall 2025 semester. Resolution 2024-2025-11, however, was not approved by the provost.
Committee Members
- Borowczak, Mike, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Burke, Shawn, College of Graduate Studies, Institute for Simulation and Training
- Gallo James, Chair, College of Business Administration, Integrated Business
- Gharavi, Paria, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Materials Science & Engineering
- Kay, Denise, College of Medicine, Medical Education
- King, Stephen, College of Medicine, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences
- Lucken, Karol, College of Community Innovation and Education Criminal Justice
- Mosher, Matthew, College of Sciences, Nicholson School of Communication and Media
- Neff, Donna, College of Nursing, Nursing Systems
- Smith, Jo, Division of Digital Learning, Instructional Design
- Tollefson, Kristina, College of Arts and Humanities, Theatre
- Vanryckeghem, Martine, College of Health Professions and Sciences, Communication Sciences & Disorders Department
- Velissaris, Chris, College of Sciences, Physics
- Yee, Kevin, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning