Checklist for Bylaws and Evaluation Criteria

• Should address tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty
• Must be approved by majority of faculty (via secret ballot vote) – indicate approval and date on the document
• Must be posted on website

Bylaws – internal operations

Procedures for

• Election of Faculty Senate representative
• Curriculum and academic matters
• Faculty governance
  • Recruitment of new faculty and other professionals
  • Development of programs
  • Program review
  • Department/unit review
  • Department/unit reorganization
  • Development of promotion and tenure criteria
  • Development of merit criteria
  • Selection of chairs and other academic administrators
  • Amending bylaws

Evaluation Criteria – criteria for tenure-track and non-tenure-track

• Annual evaluation process (with peer component)
  • Assignment of Responsibilities (Also, if not in a seperate document, include summer criteria and rotation policy/procedures for supplemental summer appointments for 9-month faculty)
• Merit criteria and method for distribution of merit salary increases
• Promotion and tenure criteria and procedure