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...need only occasionally scan the Crimson editorial pages to see our overwrought campus political culture in action. To follow up on his banal campaign promises, UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 wrote a February op-ed proposing an e-mail “hotline?? to monitor more close the quality of teaching fellows. To record her unwavering advocacy for greater “gender equality,” Dems President Brigit M. Helgen ’08 authored a pair of ho-hum editorials supporting more women in leadership positions. And, most self-serving...
...that determines where and when the UC is prepared to act is apparently money. The UC was ecstatic to work with discount textbook retailer CrimsonReading.org to catalogue hundreds of texts for spring semester courses, and didn’t flinch at setting up its new “Teaching Hotline?? last month. Neither of these initiatives cost the UC anything, except its members’ time. But when it comes to a buy-back program for PRS clickers, or $1,700 for daily newspapers, the UC comes up empty. With a $400,000 budget, that kind of avarice...
...training until there is more knowledge about the general initiative,” Wilkinson said. He added that if the Bok Center facilitated training, it would be to help in assessing the gravity of student complaints, and not in approaching TFs with feedback. While Petersen acknowledged that the hotline??which has seen traffic since its inception—could be improved if the Bok Center could be brought on board as a partner, he maintained that the project would go forward regardless. Another point of concern raised by the program is its precision, said Theda Skocpol, dean...
...Hall bureaucracy, but its failure to consult teachers and administrators who would be affected by the hotline, and who could likely provide valuable input, is alarming. Even if it were only a UC initiative, broad input would have only served to increase its legitimacy. Instead, lingering questions threaten the hotline??s potential usefulness. Students worried about grades, anonymity, or even just courtesy might hesitate to use a system whose dynamics remain so murky. And for TFs, whose professional futures often hinge on teaching evaluations, the guidelines governing complaints and their consequences must be clarified, especially if the system...
...Better Teaching, an E-Mail Away” (Feb. 14) that the Bok Center is “partnering” with the Undergraduate Council (UC) to monitor Teaching Fellow performance. We have not, in fact, signed on to the “E-Hotline?? in question...