Provost Kim Wilcox said the UCFA recommended to strengthen current processes, which corresponded to his comments on the issue that he made last spring.

Wilcox said the committee should be clearer about the criteria and timeline for review and make sure there was feedback to be discussed with faculty.

The faculty affairs committee agreed with the spirit of the Task Force 2 recommendations, said Jason Merrill, a UCFA member.

But he said instead of implementing a new review process they could work within the current framework.

“We felt the system just needed fixing,” Merrill said.

The two committees did agree that the timeline of a five-year review process is too long.

“There should be a midterm review,” Merrill said.

“We suggested that it should be a review with a different kind of tone to it. More of a constructive one will help administrators to better do their jobs.”

Because of some questions and inquiries made by the faculty, the report was sent back to the Executive Committee of Academic Council to discuss the information item further.

However, UCFA and the task force committee did not agree on whether the reviews should be posted online.

“We overall questioned that value and wondered about privacy, security concerns and questioned how useful it was,” Merrill said.

The task force wished to have this kind of public disclosure, said George Stockman, co-chairman of the committee.

“It is a public institution and we are supported by public money so to some degree these assessments should be done,” he said.

Wilcox said he has already started to strengthen the review process.

“I have asked the deans to submit the criteria they use to review chairs and have gotten responses from half the deans already,” he said.