Section FD    Faculty Composition and Development

AACSB Standards    (full text) Satisfying the Standards
Process Results
FD.1 Faculty Planning Process must consider school's responsibilities:
  • Teaching
  • Intellectual Contributions
  • Professional Service
Faculty Planning Process
The Evolution of Faculty Management Strategy
FD.2   Faculty Recruitment, Selection, and Orientation
  FD.2a Recruitment and Selection Consistent With Mission and Degree Programs

FD.2a Process for Recruitment and Selection

FGCU Philosophy for Selection of Faculty

University Document: Search and Screen Guidelines

Values for College Success

Composition of the Faculty
  FD.2b Appropriate Orientation Practices
FD.2b Process for Orientation of Regular, Visiting and Adjunct Faculty
Online Faculty Handbook

Faculty Retreat Agendas and Notes

  FD.2c Continuous Efforts Toward Demographic Diversity
FD.2c Process for Demographic Diversity in the Faculty, which considers:
Diversity: Efforts and Results
FD.3   Faculty Development, Promotion, Retention and Renewal
 

 

FD.3a

 

Processes for
  • Teaching Assignments
  • Service Workloads
  • Guidance and Mentoring
  • Support for Activities that Implement Mission

 

FD.3a Process to:
  • Determine Teaching Assignments and Service Workloads
  • Guide and Mentor Faculty
  • Enable Faculty Activities

Teaching and Service Matrices are archived in paper form at the College of Business (Self Evaluation Report, Volume 2)

Teaching output statistics are maintained in Student Credit Hour Database on College Share Drive


The FGCU Faculty Performance and Evaluation Document (FPED) includes:
  • Professional Development Plan - Section III
    and
  • Annual Review, including Performance Improvement Plan - Section V
View on-line FPED

Mentoring Support described in College Framework and Standards for Contract Renewal, Tenure and Promotion

Faculty Development: Support and Resulting Output

Faculty Service to College, University, Community, Profession

  FD.3b
Review Processes for Reappointment, Promotion, Tenure: Consistent with Mission


Evaluation Criteria to Include
  • Course Development
  • Effective Teaching
  • Instructional Innovations
FD.3b Review Process and Criteria
University Documents:

Evaluation Criteria defined in Section IV of Faculty Performance and Evaluation Document

Policies and Procedures for Multi-Year Appointments


College Document:
Framework and Standards for Contract Renewal, Tenure and Promotion

Evaluation Outcomes

  FD.3c Support Intellectual Development and Renewal FD.3c-d Process to support continuing faculty development and renewal
Academic and Business Partnerships:

Faculty Development: Support and Resulting Output

FD.3 80% Criterion: Faculty Involvement in Development Activities

Faculty Service to College, University, Community, Profession

  FD.3d Support Participation in Academic and Professional Organizations
  FD.3e Clear Policy on Outside Activity

 

FGCU Outside Activity Policy
FD.4   Faculty Size, Composition, and Deployment
  FD.4a Faculty Sufficient for Stability and Ongoing Quality Improvement

 

FD.4a-b Process to Monitor and Manage Faculty Resources

FD.4 Numerical Criteria: Faculty and Teaching Measurements


Archived in Vol. II, Self-Evaluation Report:
  • SCH Report by Course, Program and Location
  • Faculty Course Loads Report

Faculty Intellectual Contributions
  FD.4b
Deployment Consistent with Mission and Degree Programs


Qualified Faculty in all
  • Programs
  • Majors
  • Areas of Emphasis
  • Locations
FD.5 Aggregate Faculty Qualifications: Sufficient to Accomplish Mission  

Faculty Intellectual Contributions

FD.5 Numerical Criteria: Faculty Qualification Measurements


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