The criteria against which faculty are evaluated are published in the Faculty Handbook [7] and are clearly delineated in the administrative evaluation instruments. For full-time faculty, these criteria include the following categories and percent of overall weight for each category: Instructional Ability - 60%, Participation in Departmental, College, and University Activities - 15%, Community Service - 5%, Scholarly and Research Activity - 20%. Each of the categories also has several subcategories that contribute to the overall ranking. The percentages reflect the composition of faculty workloads as described in Policy Statement 238 [8] .

Department chairs utilize data from a variety of sources to complete the annual evaluations. Such data sources include the Annual Faculty Plan [9] (including the End of Year Evaluation of Accomplishments) and Student Evaluations of Instruction [6] . The faculty member is responsible for including pertinent information in his/her Faculty Plan and End of Year Evaluation of Accomplishments to enable the department chair to conduct a fair and representative assessment. Department chairs may also include classroom observations and peer evaluations [10] conducted as part of reappointment and/or promotion/tenure reviews in their overall administrative evaluation of a faculty member.

Part-time faculty are evaluated primarily against teaching criteria that are clearly delineated in the part-time faculty evaluation instrument [3] . As with full-time faculty evaluations, department chairs use the Student Evaluations of Instruction [6] , along with other information, including classroom observations, in making their judgements.