{"id":8401,"date":"2024-07-18T03:31:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T03:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accinsweb8366.wpenginepowered.com\/evalhandbook\/?page_id=8401"},"modified":"2025-07-11T23:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T23:20:29","slug":"appeals-process","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/appeals-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If faculty have any questions concerning the ratings on their <em>Summary Evaluation<\/em>\u00a0<em>Form\u00a0<\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/appendix-3-annual-summary-evaluation-forms\/annual-adjunct-faculty-evaluation-summary-form\/\">Adjunct<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/appendix-3-annual-summary-evaluation-forms\/annual-full-time-faculty-evaluation-summary-form\/\">Full-Time<\/a>), there are several steps they can follow:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol>\n<li>After receiving the completed <em>Summary Evaluation<\/em>\u00a0<em>Form\u00a0<\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/appendix-3-annual-summary-evaluation-forms\/annual-adjunct-faculty-evaluation-summary-form\/\">Adjunct<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/appendix-3-annual-summary-evaluation-forms\/annual-full-time-faculty-evaluation-summary-form\/\">Full-Time<\/a>), faculty can request a conference with the Department Chair to discuss their evaluation. The Department Chair will coordinate the meeting and discuss the evaluation, then submit a <em>Supplemental Conference Form<\/em> to the Dean\u2019s office.<\/li>\n<li>At this point, faculty may choose to request a conference with the Dean by requesting it on the <em>Supplemental Conference Form<\/em>. The <em>Supplemental Conference Form<\/em> will be attached to the <em>Summary Evaluation<\/em>\u00a0<em>Form\u00a0<\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/appendix-3-annual-summary-evaluation-forms\/annual-adjunct-faculty-evaluation-summary-form\/\">Adjunct<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/appendix-3-annual-summary-evaluation-forms\/annual-full-time-faculty-evaluation-summary-form\/\">Full-Time<\/a>) by the Department Chair and forwarded to the Dean.<\/li>\n<li>If requested, the Dean will coordinate a meeting and discuss the evaluation with the faculty member. The Dean will record the results of that meeting on a <em>Supplemental Conference Form<\/em> and attach it to the <em>Summary Evaluation<\/em>\u00a0<em>Form\u00a0<\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/appendix-3-annual-summary-evaluation-forms\/annual-adjunct-faculty-evaluation-summary-form\/\">Adjunct<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/appendix-3-annual-summary-evaluation-forms\/annual-full-time-faculty-evaluation-summary-form\/\">Full-Time<\/a>) as well.<\/li>\n<li>After completing these steps, if a faculty member does not believe that their issues have been resolved, they may follow the official college grievance process, as outlined in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/administrative-rules\/?p=1038\">Administrative Rule 4.0702.01: Resolution of an Employee Grievance<\/a> (See also ACC Webpage: <a href=\"https:\/\/offices.austincc.edu\/equal-opportunity-compliance\/employee-relations\/employee-grievance-process\/\">Employee Grievance Process<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Change in ratings &#8211; if a change in the <em>Overall Rating<\/em> provided on the <a href=\"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/annual-summary-evaluation-form\/\"><em>Annual Summary Evaluation Form<\/em><\/a> is deemed appropriate, a new form should be completed, reviewed, signed by all necessary parties and attached to all previous documents.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If faculty have any questions concerning the ratings on their Summary Evaluation\u00a0Form\u00a0(Adjunct\u00a0\/\u00a0Full-Time), there are several steps they can follow: After receiving the completed Summary Evaluation\u00a0Form\u00a0(Adjunct\u00a0\/\u00a0Full-Time), faculty can request a conference with the Department Chair to discuss their evaluation. The Department Chair will coordinate the meeting and discuss the evaluation, then submit a Supplemental Conference Form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8401","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"hero_content":false,"layouts":[{"acf_fc_layout":"one_column","heading":"","column_1":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout secondary\">\n<h3><strong>Questions about the Faculty Evaluation process?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Please email the Office of Faculty Evaluation at <a href=\"mailto:facultyevaluation@austincc.edu\">facultyevaluation@austincc.edu<\/a> for any questions about the faculty evaluation process.<\/p>\n<p>If you find any errors or have issues with the ACC Faculty Evaluation Manual, please submit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/accfacultyevalmanual\">ACC Faculty Evaluation Manual: Report Issues and Errors Form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","background":"No Background","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","size":["Wide"],"id":""}],"page_links":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/accfacultyevalmanual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}