Monday, January 12, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
Senate midyear evaluations
Scale of 1 to 5 Excellent = 5 Numbers in columns show how many senators gave the indicated rankings.
| | How accessible has this person been so far? | How accessible has this person been so far? | How accessible has this person been so far? | How accessible has this person been so far? | How accessible has this person been so far? | How accessible has this person performed their job responsibilities? | How accessible has this person performed their job responsibilities? | How accessible has this person performed their job responsibilities? |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Scott Sullivan Student Body President | 0 0 | 7 7 7 | 2 2 | 4 7 7 | 2 1 | 3 7 3 | 0 3 | 4 6 8 |
| Mike Walden Student Body Vice President | 1 1 | 2 7 10 | 2 2 | 3 4 10 | 1 2 | 2 6 9 | 1 2 | 3 7 9 |
| Kelly Huffman Student Exec. Committee Chair | 0 0 | 0 7 14 | 0 0 | 0 6 15 0 | 0 0 | 0 5 16 0 | 0 0 | 0 5 16 |
| Tom Prehelm Student Body Treasurer | 0 1 | 2 8 10 | 2 1 | 4 6 8 | 1 0 | 4 3 13 0 | 1 4 4 12 |
| Dave Reynoldson Student Body Assistant Treasurer | 1 0 | 5 2 8 | 0 0 | 4 2 9 | 0 0 | 3 1 11 0 | 0 4 4 9 |
| Kristen Hall Executive Secretary | 0 0 | 0 6 15 | 0 1 | 0 5 15 0 | 0 0 | 0 5 16 0 | 0 0 | 0 5 16 |
| Emily Heath Center for Community Outreach | 0 1 | 3 4 11 | 1 0 | 3 0 15 1 | 0 2 2 14 1 | 0 3 1 15 |
| Jamie Najim Center for Community Outreach | 1 0 | 1 7 10 | 1 0 | 2 8 8 0 | 1 0 | 8 10 0 | 0 2 6 10 |
| Samantha Bowman Legislative Director | 0 0 | 2 5 14 | 1 0 | 3 4 12 0 | 0 0 | 0 5 15 0 | 0 3 6 14 |
| Scott Kaler Transportation Coordinator | 0 1 | 4 5 9 | 2 0 | 6 3 9 | 0 3 4 4 9 | 0 2 6 5 9 | |
Senate evaluations, effective or not praise StudEx chair but pan president
By Melissa Ngo
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate released its midyear evaluations for the first time in the past several years amid speculation that the evaluations were ineffective.
The evaluations were handed out by Kelly Huffman, student executive committee chairman, at the beginning of the Dec. 3 Senate meeting. Senators were asked to evaluate the Senate executive staff during the meeting and to turn them in at the end.
Scott Sullivan, student body president, estimated that 40 to 50 of the 70 senators attended that meeting. Twenty-one senators turned in evaluations.
Senate executive staff includes the student body president, vicepresident, student executive committee chair, treasurer, assistant treasurer, executive secretary, Center for Community Outreach co-directors, legislative director, and transportation coordinator.
Sullivan said that one reason so few senators turned in evaluations might have been because some people were uncomfortable turning in bad evaluations.
Sullivan said that he was proud the executive staff had good overall evaluations because it proved Senate had a good staff.
There has been debate about how effective the evaluations were, especially because less than one-third of senators turned them in.
Matt Bachand, liberal arts and sciences senator, said that the responses were not representative of all Senators.
"I think the way that it turned out was that the people who were
happy with Senate filled them out. Others who didn't were disillusioned with the idea and felt that it didn't matter." he said.
Bachand said he didn't think the questions were helpful in planning new action for the spring.
The evaluations asked questions such as how effective the officers were overall and how active the officers had been in pursuing senator ideas and involvement.
"I want questions like 'How do you think the different things we did this semester were handled?' and 'What do you want us to work on?" Bachad said.
Bachand also said senators should not be the ones filling out the evaluations, because the point wasn't whether Senate was happy with itself.
"Why not give it to the student body to see how they feel?" he said.
Huffman had the best evaluations, with no one rating him less than 4 out of 5 possible points. Positive comments about Huffman said that he was "incredibly helpful" and had "fair and objective listening skills."
Huffman said that the evaluations were a good tool for feedback, but he also had concerns about them.
"My biggest concern with the evaluations was that they were done at a heated meeting on a controversial issue. People's views on that issue might have biased how they felt during the evaluations," he said.
Because Senate is asking professors to be open with their evaluations, Sullivan said it would be hypocritical for Senate not to release its own evaluations.
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