Files on outside hires contained more information on teaching than in the previous year. The FPC may need some guidance from the university on the requirements for an early promotion or tenure case. We never resolved this question and each member voted using their own standards. The information on teaching that reaches the FPC varies greatly. This varies from department to department and from school to school.
Most files contain quantitative data from student evaluations at the end of courses.
But some departments or schools have only one set of student comments that are give to the candidate after each course and these are then used when it is time for promotion or tenure decisions. There will probably always be problems with outside cases. As mentioned above, more information on teaching was provided this year than the year before, but these cases do not contain as much evidence as we would like. These data are best collected by the departments or schools doing the hiring. In most cases it is possible to collect fairly good information on the candidates.