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pipeline: by: chris bradshaw

Faculty Evaluation Proceedure:

The recent faculty evaluation in this College has come up
against some fairly intense criticism in the past few weeks,
including the formal notification from the Faculty Associa-
tion to proceed with formal grievance proceedures against
some of the Evaluation Committees decisions. This is entire-
ly within the rights and responsibilities of the Association
as written in the Collective Agreement; however, there have
been rumour and innuendo circulated throughout the College
which is largely uninformed and continues to grow and dist-
ort with every telling.

As a member of this committee, and a representative of the
student body, | find this innuendo disturbing but understandable,
since the information used in these meetings is kept strictly
confidential. Therefor, any data which has reached the populace
of the College has been carefully edited by those concerned, and
will inevitably reveal only that which the person involved
wishes to be revealed. This is an important fact to keep in
mind when considering any such information and must always be
taken in context with the source.

| must reiterate this point; the decision of the Committee
in each case was an extremely fair summation of the situation,
based on the information available to us at the time. The pos-
ition of the Faculty Association is, that the information
available to the Committee was less than-sufficient to base
an opinion upon. This remains to be seen, and the proceedure
may be compromised by a re-evaluation of those faculty invol-
ved. In this event, | feel it my duty to inform the students
of this Colleage that the evaluation oroceedure is the most
important issue in the College for the students.

This democratic proceedure is the only real opportunity for
the students to be able to contribute to the continuing respon-
sibility of the excellence of art education in British Columbia.
In this committee, we, as students are finally taken seriously
in the decisions which affect our futures; both as participants
in the evaluation proceedure, and as equal votina members in the
final decision-making process. We cannot turn our backs on this
opportunity, or we will always be regarded as a maninulable
commodity.