School of Social Welfare Faculty Evaluation Plan and Merit Guidelines
The policy addresses the assessment of merit for tenure-track faculty and research faculty with distinctions relevant to their roles within the School.
School of Social Welfare tenure-track faculty and research faculty.
- Does not meet expectations <40 merit points
- Meets expectations 40-60 merit points
- Exceeds expectations >60 merit points
Tenure-Track Faculty Merit Policy
- Teaching a course = 4 points per course.
- Preparing to teach a course for first time = 2 points per course.
- Preparing to teach a course in a new modality (e.g., moving from in person to Jayhawk Global) = 2 points per course.
- Receiving a course release or course buy-out = 4 points per course.
- Instructor of record for Readings & Investigations (total, not also points for “Preparing to teach a course for first time”) = 2 points per course.
- Doctoral (PhD and DSW) activities
- Chair, dissertation committee = 2 points; (per semester)
- Methodologist on dissertation committee = 2 points; (per semester)
- Chair of Qualifying Committee = 2 points; (per semester)
- Members of qualifying committee = 2 points; (points awarded in year of completion only)
- Member of dissertation committee (whether inside or outside the School) = 2 points (points awarded in year of completion only)
- Chair of Capstone Committee = 2 points; (per semester)
- Member of Capstone Committee = 2 points; (points awarded in year of completion only)
- Mentoring activities (per mentee/per semester)
- Pre-Tenured Faculty = 1 point;
- Lecturer (Adjunct Instructors) = ½ point;
- GTAs = 1 point;
- GRAs = 1 point;
- Student scholars (e.g., undergraduate research scholars, Toni Johnson Center scholars, and MSW research scholars) = ½ point.
- Group of students (per group/per semester) = ½ point.
Scholarship:
- Peer-reviewed article, counted only once in year of acceptance or publication = 8 points.
- Book chapter, counted in year publisher accepts final manuscript = 8 points.
- Book:
- Authored by faculty member (i.e., not edited) and published by scholarly publishing company, counted in year of publisher acceptance of final manuscript = faculty member can make the case for how many points each chapter is worth, not to exceed 8 points per chapter.
- Edited by faculty member and published by scholarly publishing company, counted in year of publisher acceptance of final manuscript = faculty member can make the case for how many points each chapter is worth, not to exceed 4 points per chapter.
- Presentations, that are a part scholarship dissemination (e.g., conference, webinar, podcast):
- May count toward scholarship or service, counted only once = 1 point.
- Public testimony:
- May count toward scholarship or service, counted only once = 1 point.
- Other scholarly products (e.g., report, implementation plan, program evaluation) = faculty member can make the case for how many points each product is worth, not to exceed 2 points per product
- Release of second scholarship unit = 8 points.
- Submitting a proposal, unfunded or funded
- Internal proposal = 1 point the year of submission
- External proposal = 2 points the year of submission
- Funding up to 25K = 4 points each year the award is active
- Funding over 25K and up to 50K = 8 points each year the award is active
- Funding over 50K and up to 100K = 12 points each year the award is active
- Above 100K, 4 points for each additional 100K of funding each year the award is active
The following activities and associated points are in addition to the above:
- Authorship order = 1 point for first author, ½ point for second author
- Student authorship = ½ point per student
- Grant/contract role = 1 point for PI role, ½ for Co-PI role
Service:
- School/University:
- Membership on a School committee, whether elected or appointed = 4 point per committee
- Membership on a program-level curriculum committee (BSW, MSW, PhD, DSW) = 4 point per committee
- Membership on University committee and other bodies = 4 point per committee
- Local/State/Regional/National/International (this refers to scope as opposed to location):
- Local/state/regional service (e.g., serving on agency board or community coalition, etc.) = 1 point per service activity
- National (editorial boards for journals, journal reviews, grant reviews, etc.) = 1 point per service activity
- International (editorial boards for journals, journal reviews, grant reviews, etc.) = 1 point per service activity
- Presentations (e.g., conference, webinar, podcast):
- May count toward scholarship or service, counted only once = 1 point
- Public testimony:
- May count toward scholarship or service, counted only once = 1 point
- Significant, exceptionally time-consuming service = faculty member can make the case for how many points the service activity is worth, not to exceed 2 points per activity
- Assigned professional advising = 4 points.
- Special assignments made by the Dean = to be determined by Dean and faculty member, not to exceed 4 points.
Dean’s Direction:
- Dean’s discretion = not to exceed 4 points per faculty member.
Sabbatical and Other Academic Leave:
School of Social Welfare
Assistant Dean
Kristin A Trendel
785-864-4720
katrendel@ku.edu
08/22/2024: Policy update.
05/26/2022: Policy updated to match the 02/04/2022 amendment.
04/19/2022: Policy added to the Policy Library.
02/04/2022: Policy was created, amended and voted on by Social Welfare tenure-track faculty and research faculty.
10/03/2014: Amended by faculty vote.
12/12/2008: Amended by faculty vote.
02/22/2008: Amended by faculty vote.
12/08/2006: Amended by faculty vote.
05/13/2005: Approved by faculty.