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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, November 19, 1968
Sympathy for 'dissatisfied student'
AAUP studies teacher evaluation
By MARLA BABCOCK Kansan Staff Writer
Focusing on methods of evaluating faculty teaching, KU's American Association of University Professors committee on analysis and improvement of instruction has begun research for the current year.
The committee is in sympathy with students who are dissatisfied with teaching in the modern university, not just at KU, said James W. Hillesheim, professor of education and chairman of the committee.
Hillesheim said the group is undertaking a two-stage program.
The first stage, which will continue through this semester, involves collecting information on teaching evaluation from KU and other campuses.
The committee is collecting teaching evaluation sheets used
in classes in hopes of compiling the best questionnaire for use by all KU faculty members.
Hillesheim said this might help remedy the present "communication" problem among faculty in different departments. Presently, he explained, faculty members have no means of sharing evaluation ideas and techniques.
The committee encourages interested students and faculty members to submit any such information available to them, Hillesheim said. "It will be impossible to go about doing this unless we can get expression and involvement from students," he said.
In addition to collecting evaluation sheets, the committee is trying to determine the desirability and effectiveness of such
evaluation projects, Hillesheim said.
Early next semester, after data collection is completed, the committee hopes to meet with representatives of the faculty and the student body.
The meeting will discuss how departments or individual instructors can obtain accurate teaching evaluations and what students can do to improve teaching.
Any resolutions or suggestions resulting from research and discussions are pending the outcome of the two initial stages, Hillsheim said.
The committee is larger this year than it has been in the past. "There is probably more interest than ever before," Hillsheim said.
Calling for KU's leadership in
PRAGUE (UPI)—The Czechoslovak Communist party yesterday announced the return of complete party control of all phases of society, including the news media, and indicated abandonment of most of the reforms initiated by Alexander Dubcek last spring.
No Mention
Czechs abandon Dubcek reforms
The party's new post-invasion policy was spelled out in a lengthy Central Committee document, setting the course of the nation under the watchful eyes of Soviet occupiers.
The document made no mention of freedom of press, travel and assembly that were promised by the same central committee in its "action program" last April.
The only reforms repeated in the committee resolution, as released by the national news agency CTK, were the federation of the Czech and Slovak republics and a pledge not to return to the terror methods of the Stalinist era.
The party resolution, adopted at a three-day meeting that ended in the small hours of Sunday morning, announced the "continuation" of economic reforms already started.
But it did not mention the "workers councils" of the April party action program and spoke
only of democratic participation of the working people in directing and controlling the economy.
Newsmen Protest
Year abroad has openings
As television began to broadcast the new program, more than 1,000 journalists met in Prague to protest censorship of the mass media ordered even before the Central Committee session and an expected purge of press, radio and television writers.
The journalists joined a nationwide sit-in strike by students protesting the rollback in the springtime reforms. Students already have occupied buildings in Prague, Ostrava, Oolomouce, Usit Nad Labem, Brno, Plyen and Bratislava to back demands for continuation of the democratic reform movement.
An opportunity to study in Germany is open for 12 to 15 KU students next year. As participants of the German junior year abroad program, they will study at the Universitat Bonn.
The Central Committee resolution said tightened party control again would extend to science, culture and art in which the party would have the role of "inspirer."
Requirements include completion of 60 semester units by fall, 1969, a B-average in four semesters of college-level German and a fairly strong over-all academic average, said Mrs. Sandra Tra versa, foreign study adviser.
In September students attend a six or seven-week orientation program in Germany. They then enroll in regular courses of the university.
Prof to read poetry
Janice Mitchell in one of our AMCO coats
teaching evaluation, Hilesheism said, "We want KU to work on the leading edge of improving instruction, instead of being forced to do it (by other schools)."
KU English professor Edward Grier will read selections from the poetry of William Carlos Williams at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union Music Room, said Jeff Lough, Salina sophomore and SUA Poetry Hour chairman.
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