The Committee on Campus Governance is considering having the administrator evaluation survey housed in Human Resources department, rather than in the Office of Institutional Effectiveness.
The survey will be a collaboration between CoCG and HR, according to Bethanie O’Dell, chair of CoCG and virtual learning librarian.
“When I was thinking about it, because (Faculty Executive Committee) wanted us to be ‘oh, it’s only a Faculty Senate thing’ and that would mean that I, or somebody in here, would be assigned that task of creating that survey and seeing those results and I thought ‘I don’t feel comfortable having that kind of information,’” O’Dell said.
The confidential information would include the responses of individuals to questions on the survey.
That issue of confidentiality is why JoLanna Kord, assistant provost of institutional effectiveness, recommended that the process be switched to HR, instead of remaining within her department.
“Involving university employees such as myself in a process where we are privy to individual responses to questions about the evaluation of administrator performances places me in a vulnerable situation since none of my roles and responsibilities are aligned with facilitating personnel evaluations,” Kord said in an email sent to O’Dell.
The committee had previously considered housing the survey in IT instead of HR, but decided against it.
“I think Jo Kord is right,” said Carol Lucy, senator assistant professor of business administration. “It’s not in her category and I know for a fact IT stuff is in common area, so that makes me very uncomfortable even when IT does our own research study data. You can’t leave it in the common area. That is a challenge, so I think human resources is the right place for it.”
During their next meeting, Steve Lovett, president of Faculty Senate and assistant professor of business administration, and Ray Lauber, director of HR, will attend to discuss the process that switching the department will take and what HR’s role in the collaboration will be.
After meeting and discussing the procedure, the committee will then begin to draft a bill regarding the transition.
The next CoCG meeting will be at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Xi Phi room.
