Useful Tools


Need information to help you advocate for theatre in higher education at your institution? Does your dean need you to prepare outcomes assessments for the courses in your department? Questions about tenure evaluations? ATHE has prepared a series of papers and reports for you. You can order paper versions of many of these documents from the ATHE Office using this order form.

Partner Benefits Position Paper

Scholarship for the Discipline of Theatre

Computer Tools for Theatre Professors
(by the ATHE Electronic Technology Committee )

The Essential Relationship: Curriculum and Production
(USITT/ATHE position paper)

Exhibits - 2005

Ethics Task Force Report: A Code for Teachers of Theatre in Higher Education

Learning for a Lifetime

VASTA suggested models for

  • Evaluating Creative Activity (Outside Expert)
  • Evaluating Teaching (Outside Expert)
  • Evaluating Creativity Activity for Promotion and Tenure
  • Evaluating Teaching for Promotion and Tenure


ATHE Outcomes Assessment Guidelines for Theatre Programs in Higher Education

Guidelines for Evaluating Teacher/Artists for Promotion and Tenure

Supplement to Guidelines for Evaluating Teacher/Artists for Promotion and Tenure

Guidelines for Evaluating the Teacher/Director for Promotion and Tenure

Guidelines for Evaluating the Teacher/Performer for Promotion and Tenure

Guidelines for Evaluating the Teacher/Dramaturg for Promotion and Tenure

Teaching and Technology Task Force (Report to Board of Governors, August 1996)