Welcome to the HC Tenure Review Committee (TRC) site

Information on this site is intended to assist working committee members and probationers during the tenure process.

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Working Committee Forms and Checklists

Checklist of Dates for Quarterly Reports and Meetings
Probationer Electronic Signature Form

Tenure Working Committee Quarterly Report Cover Pages
We have both MS Word and fillable PDFs for your use. Please save the PDF before filling it out so that you do not lose information.

Tenure Working Committee - type-able self-evaluation template
We have a MS Word form to use to type in the probationer's self-evaluation organized by the college-wide tenure criteria.

Tenure Working Committee (TWC) Handbook

The TWC Handbook provides probationers and TWC members with answers to commonly-asked questions. It is a living document updated by the TRC. Email the TRC chair/co-chairs with any questions not addressed by the TWC Handbook.

Items Related to Class Observations

Observations will include 2-3 observations per quarter, including at least one observation per year by each team member. To facilitate proper evaluation, an attempt should be made to ensure that all classes are observed by team members.

For all class observations, TWC members can use any observation tool/method of their choice. For examples of observation tools, refer to the Teaching Effectiveness course, EdTech’s PLAID website, or tools used by your department.

In the quarterly report, submit only a summary of the observation (not the tools/rubrics themselves). The summary should focus on the sub-criteria of the Faculty Effectiveness tenure criteria. See the Class Observations section of the TWC Handbook for more information on observations.

When reviewing Canvas courses, the TWC observer should be added to the course for a specific amount of time and then removed. The probationer and observer should decide what needs to be reviewed and when the observer will do the review. Then:

the probationer adds the observer at that time using the Observer role in Canvas,
the observer completes their review and then notifies the probationer to remove them,
and the probationer removes the observer from Canvas.

Items Related to Probationer Self-Evaluation

Effective Teaching Canvas Course - New faculty are automatically added to the Effective Teaching Canvas Course. See 7.2 Learn About the Self-Evaluation for the Tenure-Track Process for suggestions on reflective writing in the self-evaluation.