Tenured full-time faculty members are often asked to serve as peer evaluators on faculty evaluation teams. Per the BCEA contract, a tenured peer evaluator is any tenured faculty member who has completed in-service training as specified in 6.6.7 B.5. The evaluatee is encouraged to select a peer from within his/her department, but the peer can also be from another department. The peer is chosen by the evaluatee. Eight hours of FLEX credit per primary term may be given if requested by peer evaluator.
Any peer evaluator (including the chairperson/coordinator) shall have completed a District and BCEA sponsored in-service training session specifically designed for peer evaluation. The training for newly tenured faculty (or other faculty who have missed the training sessions) will be offered at the fall faculty institute as needed and at the spring faculty institute as needed. All tenured faculty must attend a required workshop to be trained at least once in their career. FLEX credit will be available. A faculty member if asked is obligated to participate on at least one evaluation team every eight years (for a non-tenured faculty member).