MSCHE/ACOE Self Study

activities, in 2009 the College established the position of primary supervisor. The College’s policy document on this position is in Appendix C-10. Each faculty member is assigned a primary supervisor who is responsible for faculty supervision, evaluation, and facilitating faculty development to achieve professional goals. Faculty members are to meet with their supervisor at least annually to review the past year, establish goals for the future and identify ways to facilitate those goals, discuss teaching and clinic assignments for the upcoming year, and formulate formal requests for assignment changes. Recommendations from the meetings between faculty members and their primary supervisors are generated and sent to the vice president for academic affairs and, for clinical faculty members, to the University Eye Center Administration (vice president for clinical affairs and director of professional services). To facilitate academic and clinical scheduling for the following academic year, primary supervisor recommendations are due by March 1st each year. If an individual faculty member performs functions in multiple areas within the College, the primary supervisor seeks input from other supervisors who interact with that individual, either by consultation or through a joint annual meeting with the faculty, so that a comprehensive annual review occurs. These various sources of information, including the faculty member’s curriculum vitae and list of publications/accomplishments over the past year are used by the primary supervisor in making recommendations for merit pay increases. Recommendations for promotion and tenure are made to the administration by the Committee on Professional Qualifications (CPQ). This committee is constituted of five tenured faculty members, with one elected from each of the three departments (Biological Sciences, Clinical Sciences and Vision Sciences) and two elected at large by the faculty. Revisions to the CPQ Policy Document, which details the criteria for promotion and tenure and the processes by which these occur, were discussed at the March 2010 faculty retreat and subsequently approved as of July 1, 2010 by the Faculty and Administration. The newly revised CPQ Policy Document (07/01/10) can be found in Appendix C-9 or at http://www.sunyopt.edu/faculty/hb/cpq.html.

When asked in the 2010 faculty survey to rate agreement with the statement “I understand the necessary requirements to advance my career” 60% strongly agreed or agreed. These survey results will serve as a baseline for assessing the effectiveness of recently approved policies and the impact of the primary supervisor structure.

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