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Annual Reports: Information for Chairs and Directors

The following is provided to assist Chairs/Directors understand their role relative to the Faculty Annual Report processes. The provisions of the collective agreement supersedes the content of this summary.

• TIMING

• Faculty members are required to complete and submit their Faculty Annual Report (FAR) by May 15 each academic year.
  

• SUBMISSION PROCESS

• Faculty members are required to utilize the on-line system to submit their FAR. The process is described here: (http://www.ryerson.ca/teachinglforms/annualreport.html)
  

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BY CHAIR/DIRECTOR

• When members submit their FAR on-line, the Chair/Director is required to acknowledge the submitted FAR.
• The acknowledgement process is described here: http://www.ryerson.calteachinglformslannualreport.html#acknowledge

• REVIEW BY CHAIR/DIRECTOR

• Reviewing the FARs of members in their department is recommended for Chairs/Directors, as doing so will increase their effectiveness in, among other things, providing academic leadership in respect of teaching, supporting faculty involvement in SRC and taking an active role in the career development of members of their academic unit.
• Chairs/Directors should send reminders to those faculty members who have not filed their FARs by the submission date. Such reminders are especially important in the case of probationary faculty, as the Departmental Appointments Committees need access to the probationers' FARs to carry out the year-end assessments and intermediate tenure reviews of probationary faculty by June 15 each year.

• FILING OF FARs

• In Schools/Departments that maintain responsibility for the Performance and Conduct Files (PCF) of their faculty members (as opposed to the Dean's Office), the Chair/Director is responsible for ensuring that a copy of each member's FAR for that year is filed in their PCF. To facilitate this, the Chair/Director may authorize an administrative staff member to have access to the FAR on-line system. This will allow the administrative staff member to print the FARs and carry out the filing. If the Chair/Director does not grant this authorization, he/she will be responsible for going onto the system and printing the FARs for filing in the PCF files.
• In Faculties where the Dean's Office maintains the PCFs, it will be the responsibility of the Dean's Office to ensure the FARs are printed and placed in the PCFs of the faculty members in the Faculty.

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Acknowledging Annual Reports
Viewing Annual Reports

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