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ing,” said Alan J. Scham, deputy
director of the Department of Pub
lic Safety Standards and Training
in Monmouth. “It’s good to see
that it’s a statewide effort. ”
The Oregon tribes have had in
teraction with the federal govern
ment in the past, but this is an ef
fort to form partnerships with the
tribes and the state government.
Wanda Johnson, tribal leader of
Burn Paiute Tribe, said working
with the state could be beneficial
to both parties.
The Burn Paiute Tribe has run
into conflict with the Oregon De
partment of Transportation over
road construction, Johnson said. If
ODOT finds artifacts or human re
mains during construction, there
are certain procedures to follow,
but in the past some procedures
may not have been followed, John
son said.
“We assumed that they knew
the procedure on how things like
that work,” Johnson said. “They
knew at the top, but not those
worki ng on the street, ”
Johnson said one way they
could have worked together was
to have a tribal monitor during
construction.
Partnerships would allow better
conversations and more creative
solutions because people would
have the opportunity to get to
know one another, said Dianne
Middle, director of the depart
ment of public safety standards
and training.
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Smaller groups of participants,
orclusters, meet in a series of work
sessions throughout the two-day
conference to exchange ideas and
concerns on various topics such as
the juvenile criminal justice sys
tem, gaming, land management
and fish and wildlife.
The clusters identify three to
five large issues to discuss at next
year’s conference, commit to regu
lar meetings and consider the up
coming legislative sessions,
Kitzhabersaid.
With the clusters meeting regu
larly, it would become second na
ture for state agencies and tribal
counsels to turn to one another
first to discuss a potential conflict.
“The success in this is getting
the right people in the room,” said
Chip Lazenby Jr., legal counsel for
the office of the governor. “Every
place you look, we’ve made peo
ple realize that this process ex
ists.”
Kitzhaber said people need to
be less reactive and more proac
tive in their involvement.
University President Dave
Frohnmayertold participants that
the University is doing its part to
further Native American issues
through the Oregon Native Initia
tive. The initiative includes resi
dent tuition rates for members of
Native American tribes whose de
scendants were displaced from
their Oregon homelands, and lin
guistics studies in Oregon native
languages.
The University also plans to
build a traditional longhouse on
the east end of campus near the
Museum of Natural History that
will be used for cultural and edu
cational purposes.
“Some of the tribes recognize
there’s a need to be partners with
each other and work together,”
Johnson said.
Jeff Mitchell, of the Klamath
Tribe, challenged administrative
heads, staffs and state agency lead
ers to find solutions to the issues
and work toward building on the
current executive order to make it
stronger.
“The issues aren’t getting any
easier,” Mitchell said. "Just look
across the table and we can find
the solutions together.”
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But ideally the evaluations will
expand to include more informa
tion, Cowling said.
Beginning fall term 1999, the
evaluations will include two new
questions that were approved by
the University Senate. The third
and fourth questions will read:
“3) In comparison with other
UO courses of this size and level,
do you believe that the class time
was well organized and efficiently
"Whoever takes on the respon
sibility [to compile the evalua
tions], it’s important to make sure
that all the data are correctly por
trayed,” Rice said. “There’s still
quite a few of those nagging little
typos or mistakes. ”
There have been mistakes,
Cowling said, including one pro
fessor who received a five instead
of an eight.
But the future of student feed
back is online, Rice said.
used throughout
the course?
“4) In compari
son with other
UO courses of
this size and lev
el, how well did
your instructor
encourage com
munication out
side of class
time?”
“I’m sure if we
could get more
[information],
students would
want more,”
(( Ultimately, we
would really like to see
a Web-based database
because that’s the best
way to share this
information that we
have.
Jack Rice
Associate vice provost for a cademic
affairs
Cowling said. 1 he ultimate goal
of this is having the professors
starting to care more and valuing
what students are learning so they
can become better teachers.”
Some students don’t believe the
evaluations are an accurate por
trayal of an instructor’s course or
performance.
“Unless you’re going to decide
between two classes, it’s not going
to do you much good,” student
Andrew Schneider said.
Undergraduate Morgan Davis
said he doesn’t think the evalua
tions should be published.
“Haven’t you filled them out be
fore and just railed out a teacher?”
he asked.
The evaluations could be more
accurate, said Jack Rice, associate
vice provost for academic affairs.
“Ultimately,
we would really
like to see a Web
based database
because that’s
the best way to
share this infor
mation that we
have,” Rice said.
Last summer,
Cory Coleman,
an undergradu
ate in psycholo
gy and computer
science, pre
pared a system
that would dis
play the evaluations online.
Coleman hopes to add a feature
where people will be able to write
and post comments online.
Some professors use the evalua
tions to check their progress in the
classroom.
“I haven’t felt like comparing
my evaluations to anyone else,”
said Ted Gerber, a sociology pro
fessor. “It seems best to compare
the evaluations to the others in the
department.”
Gerber received perfect scores
on one evaluation, a 10 for his so
ciological research methods
course and a 10 for the quality of
his instruction.
“It makes sense to me that they
should publish it to provide stu
dents with more information
when selecting classes,” he said.
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