A faculty-run review of Chancellor Brady Deaton’s performance is underway — it will be the first time he has been reviewed since he took the job in 2004.

Faculty Council Vice Chairman Clyde Bentley is in charge of organizing the review.

“It’s just something assigned to Faculty Council every few years,” Bentley said. “It has a set of questions that will go out to the faculty, so that they can evaluate him on a number of criteria to evaluate his performance.”

After the survey is conducted and a report is written, the report will be presented to the UM system President and the Board of Curators. It is not known yet if the report will be available to faculty, but Faculty Affairs committee chairman Sudarshan Loyalka said he hopes it will be.

“As a faculty, we do not appoint the chancellor,” Loyalka said. “The chancellor is appointed by the Board of Curators. Any chancellor or the president should have the confidence of the faculty.”

Bentley said the review of the chancellor is similar to any other employee review he conducted during his time as a newspaper manager.

“It’s important for the person who’s being reviewed to have an idea of how they are perceived,” Bentley said. “It’s important for the people who are employees to have an opportunity to tell their administrator or leader whether that person is serving them and their public.”

Loyalka also said the criteria of the review is not specifically targeted toward the chancellor’s term.

“I don’t think I would say any single issue (is most important),” Loyalka said. “There are many issues. I think the task of any professional is to make faculty’s work possible and to help the faculty maintain standards.”

Bentley is completing the survey that will be distributed to faculty. Once the survey is completed, Faculty Council will have a chance to look over the results. Faculty Affairs committee member James Tarr said they have not received much information about what the report will contain.

“I have had basically no role in it, but it is something that is coming,” Tarr said.

Bentley said the chancellor’s review is not a response to any questionable behavior, but simply an opportunity to communicate about Deaton’s administration.

“This is not an antagonistic review,” Bentley said. “It’s a means of allowing the chancellor and the faculty to come together. My hope would be that the chancellor would see this as an opportunity, and that the faculty would also see this as an opportunity to give honest evaluations rather than just emotional feedback.”