The Teaching Effectiveness Center can lead this ongoing effort. Consulting services could be provided to individual faculty and to academic departments. For academic departments, the TEC could encourage quality and consistency in interpreting and acting upon the results of student evaluations of teaching. The center could provide advice to departments in formulating post-tenure review development plans. Most important, the center can identify problem areas in retention, study them, and recommend solutions to departments and to university administration.
Direct assistance can take many forms.
Classroom sessions can be videotaped and critiqued to help faculty with self-evaluation. Student interviews can be conducted and analyzed. Guidance can be provided on the construction and analysis of examinations. Mentoring programs can be established. Referral services would seek to match faculty needs with campus resources.