School Standards for Arts and Humanities
Preamble
A uniform set of standards for the evaluation of teaching, scholarship and community
services in the
School of Arts and Humanities must be fair, flexible, and provide reasonable goals
and expectations
for those who seek tenure and promotion in the School.
Such a set of standards designed to evaluate all faculty in fields as diverse as Visual
Art,
Communications, History, Philosophy and Religion, Language and Culture Studies, Literature
and
the Performing arts must also be broad enough and flexible enough to support a wide
range of artistic
approaches and scholarly activities. School standards should not be restrictive and
the School should
provide the resources necessary for the faculty to achieve reasonable goals.
6.0 The Arts and Humanities faculty have adopted the College standards as a desirable
set of School
Standards for the Arts & Humanities faculty with the understanding that Program guidelines
and
judgment should be paramount.
g
Teaching
6.1 The criteria for teaching are located in 6.1 of the College guidelines.
6.1.1 For all Arts and Humanities Programs, the School recognizes the criteria contained
in the
College “Excellence in Teaching” guidelines.
Scholarly and Creative Activity
6.2 The criteria for scholarly and creative activity are located in 6.2 of the College
guidelines.
6.2.1 Across the range of Arts and Humanities Programs, the School encourages and
recognizes
Program leadership and supports a variety of scholarly approaches: disciplinary or
interdisciplinary
research, artistic or creative activity, pedagogical research, applied research, integrative
scholarship,
and grant acquisition that supports Program and School activities.
a
6.2.2 Scholarly or creative activities may take many forms and use different methods
to collaborate
with and communicate with the broader community.
c
College and Community Service
6.3 The criteria for College and community service are located in 6.3 of the College
guidelines.
