Tenure and promotion reviews

Student reviews of teaching

Initiators, candidates, and student committees collaborate with the Office of Institutional Research and Evaluation to solicit and summarize reviews of a candidate’s teaching from a representative sample of the candidate’s students.  The student review process begins in the spring semester before the year of the faculty member’s candidacy and continues through mid-October. The information on this page and in each of the links below has been updated to reflect the changes to the Faculty Manual passed by the faculty in April 2011.  

For initiators and candidates
An overview of the responsibilities of initiators, candidates, and IR&E in the student review of teaching process

For student committees
Information about responsibilities and timelines for student committees

For student and alumni reviewers
Information about the criteria and procedures for tenure and promotion reviews for students and alumni invited to complete a Student Review of Teaching questionnaire

Student Review of Teaching questionnaire
A new questionnaire reflecting the Standards for Faculty Evaluations as revised by the St. Olaf faculty in April 2011

Preparing additional questions
Suggestions and examples for departments and student committees developing supplementary questions for the Student Review of Teaching questionnaire

Preparing a sampling request
Information to assist initiators in completing the Sampling Request form

Revised Faculty Manual provisions for tenure and promotion reviews
Text of revisions to Sections 4.VII - 4.XI of the St. Olaf Faculty Manual as revised by the St. Olaf faculty in April 2011