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That is why the council is in a position to exert careful but effective influence on tenure decisions. The council, with its substantial authority over the CUE course evaluation guide, controls the apparatus to compile and present information about the teaching ability of junior professors when they come up for tenure. The faculty already uses the guide informally in tenure considerations. Now, the council should devote effort to making CUE evaluations useful to tenure reviewers, and the faculty should make clear to all teachers that they have a responsibility to submit to CUE review. Maybe students shouldn...
...that were to happen the CUE's importance to the careers of Harvard junior professors would increase, giving the junior professors (and maybe some full professors, too) more motivation than they currently have to make teaching, course development and interaction with students prime concerns. Compiling and analyzing information about junior professors is less attractive than joining professors on powerful committees. But the former tact may actually yield results...
...council approved the report Sunday and will take it to the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) next week. If the CUE supports the report, the Faculty Council, which Spence chairs, must approve it before the full Faculty can consider...
...Although CUE postponed a vote last Thursday,some of the members there said that "if studentsfeel misrepresented, the [tenure] system should bechanged...
...would be very disappointed if the argumentsin the report aren't enough to move the CUE tovote," said Council Chairman Richard S. Eisert'88. He said that the report "can only be asalutary mechanism...