The District is moving forward with faculty evaluations as if times are normal — there is no pandemic, we are meeting in-person and everyone – students and faculty – smoothly transitioned into the current educational paradigm. But, in fact, nothing is normal, our students and faculty are experiencing extraordinary challenges and faculty are spending inordinate hours trying to counter registration errors, resolve course connectivity problems, and meet the needs of students, while everyone adjusts to the remote delivery of instruction, counseling, and library services.
To mitigate the burden of new, increased, and shifting duties, AFT 2121 proposed postponing some evaluations, but the District rejected this recommendation and, this week, initiated the evaluation cycle as if it was business as usual.
Faculty evaluations are a peer-led process, that means we lead the process on behalf of our students. Our faculty are managing delivery of remote crisis education and our students are navigating remote crisis learning. It is up to us to reimagine what evaluations ought to look like during times that couldn’t be farther from “business as usual.” We owe it to our students and to each other.
Join us for our next listening session on Thursday, September 10th @ 10am where we will be discussing the realities of delivering instruction, counseling, and library services and developing our collective vision of faculty evaluations during a global public health crisis.
To attend go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88359845876?pwd=RjE1UElGVzVPRjNYSkJHNmQ2TVU5dz09 OR call 1-669-900-6833 and follow the prompts to enter the Meeting ID: 883 5984 5876 and Password: 868017
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