The Ohio University Board of Trustees will seek opinions of students, faculty and other constituent groups when it conducts its annual performance evaluation of OU President Roderick McDavis.

The board began using constituent groups as part of a 360-degree evaluation process last year.

“Last year we really expanded the evaluation process,” said board chairman R. Gregory Browning. “We got a lot of candid discussion and insight that was very beneficial. We plan on moving in that same direction again.”

The Executive Committee of the board met at OU’s Lancaster campus yesterday to begin the review process. Browning said the committee will meet with constituent group representatives sometime in May, with the final evaluation coming out before the end of the academic year.

“We’re building on a new model,” Browning said. “We may expand it to some degree and deepen it and try to be as reflective as we can be.”