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Established in 1974 as an aid for undergraduates and a source of feedback for instructors, the CUE Guide has become more than just another registration handout. Following a string of policy changes and a new wave of Faculty criticism aimed at the book, Harvard's official course critique is at the center of a debate that goes beyond the ritual of shopping for courses...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Course Guide Under Fire | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...Faculty have been reexamining the Guide's influence, questioning the stock students and professors place in the annual course evaluation book. The scrutiny follows concerns raised earlier this year, when a series of letters from professors challenging the Guide's reliability prompted the student-faculty Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) to begin a formal review of its namesake...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Course Guide Under Fire | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...outset, the review focused on complaints that the book had become overly subjective. Critics charged that the book often failed to faithfully reflect student opinion and had come to resemble The Crimson's tongue-in-check Confi-Guide. Several science professors voiced additional objections, complaining that the CUE's general questionnaire did not allow for an accurate assessment of science courses because it focused on reading assignments instead of problem sets and labs...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Course Guide Under Fire | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

First, several committee members expressed concern that the CUE Guide evaluations are accorded too much weight in several departments which use them when deciding whether to promote junior faculty...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Course Guide Under Fire | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...Becks teaching style. "I've tried to minimize all things that stand between teacher and student," he says. Veterans of the course assert this means Gut. "I could have missed class every day and still have done the work," a student wrote in Northwestern's version of the CUE guide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classroom Jokes | 2/13/1985 | See Source »

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