The Committee on Campus Governance has shifted the new potential location of the administrator evaluation survey from Human Resources. They are now considering keeping it within Faculty Senate, and having the assistant of the Faculty Senate office administer the survey.
Due to the workload it would require, Human Resources would not be able to take on the survey, according to Bethanie O’Dell, chair of CoCG and virtual learning librarian.
There are three administrators up for evaluation this year. President Allison Garrett, Jim Williams, vice president of student affairs, and Lynn Hobson, dean of students, will go through the process, according to the list O’Dell compiled.
By keeping it within Faculty Senate, it could bring up issues with payment for the licensure of the survey program, O’Dell said.
“It’s a matter of getting the right training and if we use Baseline, if we use Surveymonkey, who pays for the license, how do we pay for it,” O’Dell said.
Confidentiality was also a concern for committee members, especially when it came to restricting access to only those who needed it.
“Here’s my concern with Surveymonkey, I don’t know how it works in all of your colleges, but in the School of Business, I don’t use Surveymonkey because if I use Surveymonkey, all of my surveys and the results go to a common area and every person on faculty has access to that,” said Carol Lucy, assistant professor of business administration. “Obviously, if we’re going to be integrous…then we can’t do that.”
To prevent that, the Faculty Senate office would have to pay for their own survey program license.
The assistant position in Faculty Senate isn’t guaranteed and depends on having the funding available for it, so if the position no longer existed, the committee discussed potential backups for the survey.
The committee decided that the chairperson of the CoCG would be the most likely backup if the assistant position no longer existed.
The next committee meeting will be 3:30 p.m. Oct. 9 in the Xi Phi room in the Memorial Union.
