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...Difficulties associated with the course evaluations this semester will force faculty and students to rethink how we do the CUE guide and how it can best serve the Harvard community,” he said...
...past three weeks, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, professors, teaching fellows (TFs), and many of our peers have exhorted us to fill out the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) evaluations of our courses. But apparently the deluge of spam, combined with all the other incentives FAS dreamt up (including course instructors’ promising to don fairy costumes on exam day and extra points on the final) have been insufficient in motivating Harvard students to respond. As of Friday, only 50.55 percent of students had completed the evaluations. Harvard has dangled plenty of carrots...
Piotr C. Brzezinski ’07 Associate editorial chair Announcing his return via a CUE reminder e-mail, Larry Summers inspires skyrocketing student participation, as well as a subsequent faculty CUE boycott led by Judith Ryan—and suddenly the January Faculty meeting is reinstated...
...assume responsibility for incentivizing its professors to teach well. Teaching fellows (TFs) may be successfully motivated to teach well with monetary rewards, such as the new Derek C. Bok Awards for Excellence in the Teaching of Undergraduates, but this method is unlikely to work for professors. For TFs, good CUE ratings translate to job offers; for tenured faculty, this is irrelevant. (Moreover, in many departments in which there are generally more specific class requirements, ratings are irrelevant. If you must take Chem 60 to graduate, you will, regardless of its dismal CUE rating...
...course the college might offer.” The task force proposed this additional category in a December letter. Thirty undergraduates were chosen from a pool of about 50 to participate in the General Education focus groups, which were organized by students on the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), according to CUE representative Patrick Mauro ’07. The six-professor task force has promised to release their final report this month. “The comments will certainly be helpful to the task force as we prepare the final version of our report,” task force...