Fall 2026 Updates

• The faculty evaluation deadlines for the fall semester have been approved by the AVCs. They are:

• At the recommendation of the Faculty Evaluation Steering Committee, Faculty Evaluation is making a change to one of the “behind the scenes” deadlines as well:
  • • When the Faculty Evaluation Summary app launched last year, Faculty Evaluation was aware of the need to address faculty evaluation forms that weren’t signed by faculty. It was decided to automatically move unsigned forms forward for the deans to sign “without faculty acknowledgement” at the beginning of the spring semester.
    • The Faculty Evaluation Steering Committee recommended that this deadline should be earlier and that Faculty Evaluation and department chairs should focus on stressing the deadline to faculty. So, this fall, any faculty summary forms not signed by faculty will automatically be sent forward to the dean on December 7. 
    • If faculty receive their forms late, they will always get at least 2 weeks to sign their forms before they are sent forward, after multiple email reminders.
• New features for the Faculty Evaluation Summary app coming soon:
  • • Additional faculty that will use the app: School of College Readiness, and counselors
    • Persistent sorting and filtering of the faculty list is now available for department chairs
    • When working on a summary form, department chairs (and assigned reviewers) will have a link(s) to easily review prior summary forms for that faculty member
    • Additional reporting options
    • Other tweaks, bug fixes, and improvements
• Faculty Evaluation will present additional training on the Faculty Evaluation Summary app for new (or returning) users

Questions about the Faculty Evaluation process?

Please email the Office of Faculty Evaluation at [email protected] for any questions about the faculty evaluation process.

If you find any errors or have issues with the ACC Faculty Evaluation Manual, please submit the ACC Faculty Evaluation Manual: Report Issues and Errors Form.

New process for handling Faculty Evaluation Summary forms:

IMPORTANT: We will not be submitting the Faculty Evaluation Summary form using a Word or pdf file this semester; the forms in this manual are strictly for reference. We will be using a web-app to submit Annual Faculty Evaluation Summary Forms. You can access the new Faculty Evaluation Summary System by:

• log in to MyACC
• look under “Faculty Development and Evaluation”
• Click on “Faculty Evaluation Summary System” and wait for that to open (it might take longer than you expect the first time)

Information on the new system is posted here. (An appendix with instructions will be added to this Manual in the future.)

Teaching evaluation of Deans and Department  Chairs

The process for doing teaching evaluations for deans and department chairs has been tweaked to be consistent with the new evaluation process. Details of this process can be found here.