Faculty debate preceding the introduction of a visitation program designed to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the instructors and professors of the Carnegie-Mellon University English department examines the advisability of initiating such a program and the machinery used to assure its introduction. Comprising the major portion of the article are reproductions of the forms notifying the visitor and the visited of an impending visitation and a number of letters from faculty members of all ages and professional rank expressing freely their opinions concerning the proposed program. (AF)