The department has been identified as the key unit of sustained change in research-extensive universities, like the University of Colorado (CU) (AAU et al., 2017).
Our approach adopts the Departmental Action Team (DAT) model for engaging departments (Corbo, 2015). DATs are working groups with 4-6 faculty and 1-2 facilitators, designed to involve members of the department in the development and implementation of change efforts to make sustainable reform.
While TQF is attentive to the department as a key unit of change, it is not the only location of work.  A systems view of teaching evaluation at the university will involve attention to: individual faculty, professional development programs, college and administrative levels, as well as discipline-based professional societies and extramural stakeholders. For example, recent efforts at discipline-based societies (e.g., AAPT), professional organizations (e.g., AAU, 2015), accreditors (e.g., HLC, 2016), and legislative bodies (e.g., CO Senate Bill 10-191, relating to K-12 teaching assessment) represent a broader trend in attention to teaching evaluation by extramural stakeholders.