Student opinions are desirable
Profs want critiques
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) at KU chose to limit its study this year to 'Student Evaluation of Instructors,' said James Hillsheism, associate professor of education, at the last faculty forum.
Hillesheim said, "The more prestigious the institution, the more likely it is to have student evaluations of instructors. It is the trend around the country to make student evaluations public and universal."
Hillesheim said a preliminary
DeCoursey spoke for more student voice
Student voice on the Kansas Board of Regents and the 18-year-old vote highlighted a question and answer session by Kansas Lt. Gov. James DeCourse last night in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
DeCoursey spoke to a group of students at the Collegiate Young Democrats (CYD) meeting. He approved of giving 18-year-olds the right to vote because "if they serve their country in Vietnam, the Peace Corps or anything else, they deserve to be allowed a voice in government." DeCoursey also said the 18-year-old who takes the trouble to register to vote will know what the issues are and what he can do about them
DeCoursey said the Kansas Board of Regents is attentive to he desires of the student. He suggested a student-faculty advisory board that would report college issues to the Board.
The lieutenant governor praised the Senate resolution stating the university administration itself should handle demonstrators.
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Prior to the question and answer period, DeCoursey spoke to the group, explaining the political mood of the United States.
"If we passed a bill expelling demonstrators from school, it would only be a banner for demonstrators to rally behind," DeCourse said, "and we would only have more trouble."
"We are entering a new era in American politics," DeCoursey said. "Young people are important to the new politics."
Political issues have changed so fast, DeCoursey said, that the issues of 1960 are no longer pertinent. These new politics want reform and young people are working for these changes.
"The youth are not inheriting control, they are taking control," DeCoursey said. "The CYD and young people in general must involve themselves in issues, particularly at the state level."
DeCoursey said politics must be changed but the answer does not lie in either extreme of the political scale.
"Orderly reform must come through the democratic process," DeCoursey said. "This is the only answer to new politics in America."
report of a faculty survey conducted in December and January of the 1968-69 academic year showed teaching needs to be looked at more carefully and taken into account as well as research in granting promotions.
Two statements were sent to faculty members,to agree or disagree with, and 44 per cent responded.
Student's opinon valuable
Seventy-five per cent favored the statement: "Student opinion of teaching quality and accomplishment should be systematically solicited and used as a teaching aid and as a measure of teaching in promotion procedures."
Eighty-three per cent disagreed with the statement: "Primary emphasis should be placed on research rather than teaching accomplishment in the promotion process."
Hillesheim cited various ways evaluation projects had been initiated. A faculty member might want feedback to use in his class and simply hand out a form for his own use.
Students might initiate the evaluation project but results would be kept by the instructor for faculty use only-such a project was initiated by the ASC some years ago.
A public evaluation, such as the departments of human development and sociology did last fall. The booklet "Tell It Like It Is" was a joint faculty-student endeavor.
enterprise," he said. "Students who run the project as a business usually sell the product off campus or devise some way to get the campus book store to sell it.
"Students may get money from a campus organization and then pay the money back from book receipts.
Financial support
Hillesheim discussed the problem of financial support for the projects.
"Some are strictly a private
"It's extremely difficult to support such an enterprise unless one draws from university funds."Hillesheim said.
What should faculty do?
Hillesheim posed the questions, "What should KU
faculty do, if anything?" and "Should we cooperate?"
"We might be passing up a chance to open up at least one meaningful line of communication between students and faculty," he said. "It might enable us to come closer to the goal of improving instruction by taking the first necessary step of evaluation.
"We might be passing up a chance to signify by our actions, not just by our words, that we are concerned about the quality of teaching at KU," he said.
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