Word: cues
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Having been on both sides of the podium—Harvard undergrad and TF—I would go one step farther than today’s editorial (“Will A Professor Please Stand Up?”). Both faculty and students should be accountable for their CUE evaluations. For evaluations to be meaningful, all students—not just those with the strongest positive and negative feelings—must complete them with the knowledge that their comments could appear in their instructor’s teaching portfolio to be read by hundreds of faculty search committee...
...College has clearly not communicated to students just how important their evaluations are for the careers of their instructors. Most undergraduates seem to believe that their evaluations are primarily for the CUE guide, and the College has not disabused them of this notion. As a result, while students often make thoughtful and helpful comments on informal mid-term evaluations, their CUE evaluations are usually too vague to be helpful...
Better communication about the importance of CUE evaluations would help both undergraduates and instructors...
...legislation passed and a new general education as the focus of next semester’s meetings, it is unlikely that professors will be required to be evaluated any time soon. Although this fact affects only a small number of courses—60 professors opted out of the CUE Guide last spring—the exemption remains a large blot on any claim that Harvard is trying to improve students’ academic experiences...
...both philosophical and practical levels, professors’ ability to opt out of the CUE guide is offensive to students, who essentially are deemed unworthy of making judgments—even ones that lack any repercussions—on their vaunted professors. Students might not have doctorates yet, but so long as they are being given the responsibility for choosing their courses, they deserve reasonable information upon which to base those decisions. It is a shame that not a single professor stood up in support of mandatory evaluations for all professors...