Institutional Policy Change

As part of our cross-campus work to advance teaching evaluation policy, we identified policies on our own campus that had been revised or that needed revision. We drafted narrative descriptions of our institution-level policy change work in order to learn from one another's efforts. We then reviewed the collection of narratives to identify cross-cutting themes that we thought helped our institutions make progress in advancing teaching evaluation policy.

We identified four themes, which are presented here as advice for others interested in changing teaching evaluation policies on their own campus. Click to learn more about each theme and see examples of how the theme manifested at our colleges and universities.

Our suggested citation for this resource is: Karelle Aiken, Julie Bartley, Christine Broussard, Scott Bur, Erin Dolan, Vail Fletcher, Austin Hocker, Keri Kornelson, Jane Liu, Tamar More, Elizabeth Seymour, & Dylan Worcester. (October 30, 2025.) Institutional Policy Change. Retrieved from: https://serc.carleton.edu/inclusive_teaching/learning_teams/policies/inst_change.html (Accessed on [date])

NOTE: The LCC4 project was launched to advance teaching effectiveness and evaluation at colleges and universities across the country. This meant different things to different people and institutions involved in LCC4. Thus, the content of these pages does not reflect the views of all LCC4 members or their institutions.