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Students should take the
evaluation process seriously
regardless of whether a faculty
member is coming up for tenure
or not, said ASUO President
Kasey Brooks.
But that same presumption
also implies that faculty take
responsibility for improving
their teaching skills after receiv
ing below-average evaluations.
Brooks added.
Kiyono Kobayashi, Foreign
Students Organization director,
rebuts this reasoning "What
we write in the evalutations
doesn't necessarily change the
professor’s way of teaching."
"Even if an instructor has a
bad reputation, you may be
forced to take his or her class
simply because of course re
quirements.” Kobayoshi said.
• • •
Whether students have the
competence to evaluate pro
fessors is a continual discussion
among faculty members, said
Charles Cole. the business
school's international studies
director.
Likewise, "students aren't
even necessarily the best judges
of what they themselves need."
English Professor Stoddard
Maiarkey asserted.
Richard Hill, provost and
vice-president for academic af
fairs, said he was not aware of
any student dissatisfaction with
the evaluations, but said he
was was "concerned."
If University students aren't
finding the current system
useful, we will work with the
ASUO to modify the process.
Hill said.
A possible avenue for discus
sion is the President’s Advising
Committee if students want to
make a change. Hill said.
In 1967 when students
demanded access to the faculty
evaluation process, it was
"more a political struggle than
a thirst for knowledge." said
Joseph Wade, director of
Academic Advising and .Stu
dent Services.
Today’s students
acknowledge themselves as
“consumers paying for an
education and they have every
right to call directly to the atten
tion of the fat uity any concerns
they have," he said.
“But if students are con
sumers. then faculty has the
right to tell them what to buy,"
Malarkey rebutted.
There are too many in
tangibles students use to
evaluate a professor, such as the
time of the class, amount of
classwork required, the pro
fessor's sex and even how the
instructor dresses. Malarkey
continued
Student viewpoints should be
taken seriously hut with cau
tion. he said.
“The University is not a com
pletely free market," Malarkey
said.
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