To promote mentorship and support of a new colleague’s teaching, the Provost requests that departments arrange several visits each year to the classrooms of pre‐tenure faculty. Multiple visits allow department colleagues to observe the results of comments and suggestions from earlier observations. We emphasize the importance of continued classroom visits and feedback. Through these visits, the department review statement will point out areas of new or continued strength, discuss ways in which the candidate has successfully responded to earlier issues, and identify and address issues that have not been satisfactorily resolved since the first year review.

FPC reads student course evaluations with great care. The department review statement can provide context by pointing out special circumstances, historical trends concerning student response to a given course in the department, etc.