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...faculty members’ evaluating their own courses or each others’. More importantly, there is a tremendous difference between a professor’s and a student’s opinion of a course’s pedagogy because, quite simply, courses are made for students?? benefit, not professors’. And if the Faculty refuses mandatory course evaluations, it is the University’s president who must override their protests...
...efficacy. Recently, the College has made several improvements to the evaluations, such as moving to online forms in the spring of 2005 and adding some course-specific questions this fall. In addition, the current one-to-five numeric scale should be expanded to a seven-point system, since students?? hesitancy to grade below a “3” effectively shortens the scale to three points...
...more extensive qualitative comments from students. The CUE Guide only publishes tabulations of numerical scores and of brief qualitative descriptions, which tends to flatten any interesting remarks into bland platitudes about a professor being “excellent” or “knowledgeable.” Publishing students?? thoughtful remarks online, as a list below the existing evaluation, would afford students a much better understanding of a course...
...allow CUE evaluations. The College suffers from a culture where teaching ability plays essentially no role in hiring, where faculty, out of professional “courtesy” to their colleagues, are hesitant to evaluate each others’ courses, and where some instructors even refuse to hear students?? feedback on their own courses. If Harvard College wishes to remain the preeminent undergraduate institution, it must improve its undergraduate instruction. The first shortcoming—hiring faculty without regard to instruction—must change for this goal to be reached. But nothing will change until...
...contractual obligations with Citibank are limited to the bank providing funding at below-market interest rates in exchange for Harvard’s agreement to risk-share on the portfolio. Hogan explicitly denies that Harvard receives any form of kickback on these funds and maintains that students?? best interests are at heart...