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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Dec. 14, 1964
Faculty Asked for Evaluations
KU instructors who want to know how well they are communicating with their students may soon have the opportunity to find out, the Student-Teacher Evaluation Committee of the All Student Council has said.
Plans for a program whereby teachers may request their students to fill out evaluation questionnaires on their instruction methods are underway, Bill Frick, Fort Scott junior and chairman of the Evaluation committee, said.
Fred Ellsworth, emeritus alumni secretary, will receive the Medal for Distinguished Service to Education of the Alumni Federation of Columbia University on Dec. 30.
Fred Ellsworth To Get Award
Ellsworth, a member of the KU class of 1922, was secretary of the Kansas Alumni Association for 39 years, retiring in 1963. KU's largest residence hall is named in his honor.
The Columbia alumni in the final convocation of their 50th anniversary observance in New York City will honor 23 men and women for their "eminent leadership in the field of alumni relations."
Ellsworth and Loren L. Hickerson, alumni director at the University of Iowa, are the only honorees at institutions west of the Mississippi river.
The 24th citation will be made posthumously to Ernest T. Stewart, former executive director of the American Alumni Council, who was a frequent visitor to Lawrence.
KU Places First In Public Relations
KU won first place in the internal communications division of the annual awards competition of the joint American College Public Relations Association-American Alumni Council conference last week in Topeka.
KU was recognized for its faculty handbook, student handbook, and faculty newsletter. These were produced by James E. Gunn, head of University Relations, and Larry Boston, his assistant.
"WE HAVE SENT letters to 200 professors on campus asking what they think about the program and if they recommend we go ahead with it," Frick said. "We'll analyze the replies to these letters when they are all in, and then will figure what to include on the questionnaire form."
The evaluation program would be enacted only when a professor requested the questionnaires for his students, Frick said. The questionnaires would be brought to class by a member of the Student Advisory Board, working in cooperation with the Evaluation Committee, who would then hand the completed forms directly to the instructor in sealed envelopes.
"We of course have the protection of the teacher in mind," Frick said, "which is why the questionnaires would be seen only by him once they have been filled out. This is strictly a proposed aid to KU instructors, whereby we hope students could offer suggestions that would aid the teacher and his future students. We think many instructors may welcome constructive criticism of this type," he said.
THE EVALUATION of instructors by their students was attempted at KU several years ago, Frick said, but did not materialize. The fact that schools all over the
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"Right now we're concerned with how to make up our questionnaires," Frick said. "We want students, while at the same time good, candid comments from the we want solid, constructive criticism; suggestions that the instructor could seriously consider."
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