As part of an effort to promote teaching excellence, a faculty committee studied the evaluation of teaching at the University of Arizona and developed recommendations for further improvement and support of teaching and of the evaluation of instruction. The following topics are discussed: (1) judging the reputation of a major scholarly institution; (2) fostering teaching excellence at a major scholarly institution; (3) underlying perceptions about support for teaching (rhetoric and reality; role definitions in a scholarly community; symbolic and physical support; and confusion about teaching documentation); (4) recommendations for supporting teaching and teachers (including the development of a broad definition of teaching to be incorporated into promotion and tenure guidelines, hiring and merit review; development of programs to improve teaching skills; and involvement of student views); and (5) supporting a valid teacher evaluation system (assembling evidence to document teaching that includes scholarly activity in support of teaching, contribution to departmental and university teaching, formal instruction, and individual student contact; and developing documentation and criteria for evaluating faculty teaching). Two appendices provide more detailed information on assembling evidence to document teaching and evaluating faculty teaching. (KM)