This document is advisory, not prescriptive. Evaluation of classroom teaching by the chairperson, members of the third-year review committee, and other faculty is important. So too are teaching awards at the university level, including those for teaching in the honors program. Being nominated for such awards can also contribute to an overall positive evaluation of pedagogical ability. In the Humanities, doctoral directive status is typically not granted until a book has been accepted or published, and it is very unlikely that a candidate will have directed a doctoral dissertation to completion.
Considerable weight is attached to the status of the press.
Candidates should publish only with presses in the upper tiers, and to do otherwise is to incur very substantial risk. Using the provost's benchmark, half of the presses would be above the mean, and any ranking that suggests otherwise would be meaningless. Some presses have reputations in certain fields but not others. A candidate selecting such a press has an obligation to demonstrate its quality by such things as the major prizes its books have received and its publication of major works by elite scholars. Less prestigious university presses, though still of high quality, include Duke, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Virginia, and Wisconsin.