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...they either inspire or bore the students whom they teach. On a more general level, mandatory evaluations send the message that initiatives like the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development were intended to make: Harvard University is committed to improving the academic experience that Harvard students receive. Currently, professors?? ability to opt out of the CUE—no matter how few do choose to do it—signals a glaring disregard for students’ feelings regarding their own education...
...campus suggest that a faculty member will offer to amend the legislation. If no one does, however, we hope that the Faculty will reject the current legislation. Holding TFs hostage is an unfortunate cost to pay, but one well worth paying if it leads to a system where all professors?? teaching abilities are evaluated by students...
...Harvard is making an exception here in terms of the charitable aspect,” Edwards says. And the University’s choice comes even as Harvard ramps up its efforts to commercialize other professors?? medical advances...
...allowing their publication in the annual CUE Guide. “Most,” however, is not enough. Gross said last spring that about 60 professors chose not to have their fall 2005 courses evaluated. This is no small number. If the full Faculty will not force these professors?? hands, the president must...
Mandating course evaluations and their publication benefits students by improving professors?? teaching and by providing more information about a course before enrolling. But refusing CUE evaluations hurts teaching fellows (TFs) as well as their future students. The 60-odd professors?? rejection of CUE surveys left more than 230 TFs without the formal student evaluations that would help these aspiring academics develop their teaching careers. If Harvard is to expect, as we firmly believe it should, its tenure-track faculty to be as proficient in the classroom as they are in the library or the laboratory...