Word: inputs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fearing more protests on an already troubled campus, the school administration readily agreed to the TAA's demands for salary increases, improved working conditions and increased graduate student input in the curriculum...
...undergraduate experience" has confirmed anything, it has reinforced my skepticism about the worth accorded to student input. This University fires the professors we acclaim. It has institutional policies often in direct opposition to those favored by a vast majority of students. Top administrators rarely, if ever, meet undergraduates. Faculty members in large lecture courses have never met most of the students enrolled in the class. The list goes...
...What if all of the questions had benefited from similar input? One question, in particular, grated: "Have I ever gone to my House Master about a serious personal difficulty?" Come on, I've only shaken his hand once. On a more technical level, does that mean my House master should get a "5" for unhelpfulness, or a "non-applicable" since I've never approached...
...because 99 percent of students want it that way. And what about the section asking for students to come up with ways of improving student/faculty contact? Who will read those responses? What will happen to the ideas? Most likely they will land in the large dump that constitutes "student input" at the College. The results of the survey are scheduled for discussion at a public forum later this semester. Fine, but then what...
...experiences dealing with students' reactions to controversial subject matter closely parallel those of many other professors who teach in non-traditional disciplines. Interviews with instructors this week revealed that the teaching of sensitive issues in the college classroom-and the question of student input--are problems that do not lend themselves to a single solution...