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...holes in the purview of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) continue to be sealed, the goal of the evaluation process, particularly for faculty, needs to be rethought. After years of Harvard students’ complaining about the poor quality of the teaching they receive, even from Harvard’s most distinguished faculty members, what we need is not a small increase in the number of graduate students that get evaluated. Rather, the Faculty should re-examine how CUE data can actually be used to improve the quality of undergraduate education at Harvard. After years of CUE Guides...
This afternoon, at its last meeting of the semester, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will face legislation from the Committee on Graduate Education (CGE) concerning mandatory evaluations for all Teaching Fellows (TFs) in the College. Currently, the Committee on Undergraduate (CUE) Guides lack information on any TFs in classes led by professors who opt out of the evaluative process...
This legislation greets the Faculty seven months after a similar—but considerably more expansive—piece of legislation was tabled: a bill that would have required all professors, as well as all TFs to take part in CUE evaluations. At that meeting, vocal critics destroyed momentum that the legislation gained from its unanimous approval by the Faculty Council. We hope that in this afternoon’s meeting, a professor or dean addresses the concern of professors opting out of the CUE and amends the legislation to match last May’s aborted attempt. Short...
...number of professors and TFs who are left out of the CUE is relatively small—last spring, about 60 professors and more than 230 TFs were not evaluated—but this small cohort is disproportionately likely to need evaluations. While there are a small number of professors who oppose mandatory evaluations on perverse ideological grounds—evaluations “introduce the rule of the less wise over the more wise,” according to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53—it is reasonable to suspect that...
...Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol, who chairs the CGE and the recently formed Task Force on Teaching and Career Development, maintains that “It is not fair to the vast majority of good, conscientious teachers to have a small number of professors opt out of the CUE Guide.” She added, “Personally—speaking as a professor—I would support an amendment to the legislation. I do want all professors to be evaluated...