The department chair, dean, or their designee must ensure that all tenure-track faculty and tenured associate professors have been observed in rank at least three times by faculty colleagues while teaching their organized courses and that a minimum of three written peer observations are available to be included in the dossier.
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However, the preference is for at least three peer observations to be completed at least a year before the candidate’s dossier is reviewed so that the candidate can make changes in response to the feedback provided and reflect on the impact of those changes.
The Guidelines for the peer teaching observations can be found on the Provost’s Office website for Promotion and Tenure.
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