1970-09-16; Central Michigan Life

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By SUE REEVES
Ass't. Ed, - Student Affairs
Student Body President Rick
Kedzierski addressed the University Senate Monday afternoon
to speak with that body "about
our very existence as a community of scholars."
Kedzierski said that attempts
at   constitutional reform have
denly it changes drastically when
presented or passed by the
powers that be."
'" "Those of us in Student Government who have worked oyer
and over again... have finally
come to realize that we have been
kidding each other for a long
time," he said.
Kedzierski went on to tell University Seriate that a real sense
or reform
"If tb-e new Senate refuses
to act on this grave crisis, we
will be forced to go elsewhere
to select students for a constitutional convention,"
However, he said, "We are
unwilling to have just another
attempt at rewriting a constitution without a clear and serious
commitment     by     all    those
members of the University community who are involved."
Kedzierski suggested that now
is the perfect chance for change
since the beginnings of a community government are already
there.
He said that Academic Senate
offers us the perfect chance for
change, "Now is the time for us
to sit down as human beings and
get a new form of community
government for this campus."
"One that is going to be rep-
resentive, one that is going to
be sincere and one that can be
accepted by the entire university
community."
been going oh for longer than five of community, and equality does
years and that "age of attempted not exist on this campus. "The
reform on this campus is infi- faculty -does their thing, toe stu-
jjite^f dents do theirs and toe admin-
Kedzierski said toat part of the   istrators attempt to mediate or
trouble in the past has been that   impose still other alternatives
«a committee is formed, toey   on the two/'
hammer out a proposal and sud-      In   the" past,   according  to
Kedzierski, the success of
Student Government has been too
slow and much too few in number.
"New there are too many committees, too little communications and too much foot
dragging."
Kedzierski
true answer
toat face faculty,
administrators is
government.
He made it clear that he wants
this year's Student Senate to act
as  a constitutional convention.
Tally
to be sent
By MONETTA L, RICKEY
Ass't. Ed. — Academics
Preference tally cards, an
attempt to relieve registration
difficulties, will be mailed tp all
University students the end of
this week, according to
R, William Dunham, assistant
registrar.
Students should pick up a list
of classes that each department
will offer in their dormitory
or in buildings where Central
Michigan LIFE is distributed,
similar to class schedule books.
They will also receive an IBM
Course Preferences sheet by
mail.
Distribution of the cards will
begin the end of this week and
will be collected next week,
Sept. 21 - 25. They will be collected downstairs near, the
Reservation in the University
Center and at the ticket booth
in Warriner Hall. 0^ .
The registration information
will be mailed to students living
in dormitories and at local
addresses off-campus. Students
who are student teaching will
receive the cards from their
area coordinators.
The tally cards will be sent
through a computer and toe
results will be given to department chairmen so they may provide enough classes for students,
said Dunham.
For this reason it is important
that all students co-operate wito
foe Registrar's Office, complete
preference tally cards and
them to toe designated
CENTRAL
MICHIGAN
LIFE
Volume 51   Number^    Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858      Wednesday, September 16,1970
Arid meet new demands
said that toe only
to the problems
students and
a community
IFC to undergo change
By JOANNE CLEMENT
LIFE Staff Writer
To meet the demands of our
He said, "Nitoer Mike (Lueder) constant changing society, orga-
nor I can mandate to the Senate, nizations are discovering the
but we  can  make  known  our    need tdlnitiate change. The Greek
intentions in advance."
system,     specifically     Inter-
Fraternity Council, at Central
is undergoing such a change,
says Pat Van Haron, IFC president.
Fraternity    men   have   been
stereo-typed   as   the  "party-
going'', "fun-loving" students.
However, a closer look at the
Greek  system  will prove this
view to be only surface truth.
the
return
areas.
A TWO-DAY teach-in devoted to peace arid
social problems facing America was presented
Monday  and Tuesday by the Student-Faculty
Coalition for Peace. As part of that "teach-in,
information tables were set up in toe U Center.
Granted, parties and social
activities predominate a portion
of every weekend; however, the
weekend is only two days out
of a possible seven.
Scholastic achievement is
expected of all fraternity mem-,
bers, wito recognition given to
both grade-conscious fraternity's as well as to deserving
individuals.
Another step towards , improving grades is the establishment of a tutoring service,
Van Haron said. It is planned
that brothers of all fraternity's
can help those in need of academic assistance.
IFC, also plans to present a
series of speakers who will discuss topics relevant to our society, he disclosed. The planned
speakers series will be open
to all students on campus.
For those interested, numerous opportunities are made available to participate in a wide
range of competitive sports.
Also, one can develop leadership qualities by holding various
" offices within toe individual fraternities as well as IFC.
Community Projects have in
the past been supported by IFC.
Last year $1400 was raised for
the cause of Muscular Dystrophy
and $1300 for the Easter Lily*
Drive.
It is planned that this year
more worthwhile projects will
be added to the agenda of each
fraternity's upcoming events
calendar, ,
Evaluation poll found effective
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By JUDY SAMELSON
Life Staff Writer
Remember all those teaching
evaluation forms you filled out in
classes last semester? Actually
students wereparticipatinginone ■
°i tour separate faculty evaluations made byinstructorstoem-
selves and department chairmen.
uvl^ Ration   Program
,«rged by the Council of Deans.
^ZZ I Deans> met with the
torn ^eabrtng Association
^assooLf faculty representative
^association, and allotted money to
each school within the University.
**> amount depended upon severs, including
of faculty members within
berorr^^^^enum
i"w ot faculty m
e'ach ^!Partment'   The Dean of
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partiew.   tostructor's special
|dSs;Patlonbey°ndtheir normal
I ATovir" ** *• syst6m
ky in T     ** analysis offac-
t«y JSf * dances, espe-
I    * ment pay which is ^V6n
to an unusually qualified faculty
member.
The evaluation program included four separate faculty assessments and students personal
views of their classes and
instructors. Sponsored by the
Council of Deans, Student
Government and University Senate, it was initially used following
toe Spring semester, 1970.
Prior to this system, Studient
Government attempted to provide
students With toe opportunity to
voice their views of classes,by
using a smaller scale evaluation.
FLAWS NEED WORK
Neil Bucklew, Vice Provost
of Academic Affairs siad, "We
have established toe rudiments
of a system here. Many flaws
have yet to be worked out but
We feel we have been very successful thus far, and we will
continue our efforts to improve
and modify the system.1''
The focal point of toe program was to make faculty a self-
learning point.   By scannong.his
own evaluations, he could tell in
what areas he excelled and what
areas demanded immediate improvement.
Participation was voluntary
and all but a few insturctors
were willmgto entertain the evaluation forms.
First, faculty members were
issued a packet containing four
evaluation forms: a personal,
cbllegue, department chairman
and student evaluations. These
in turn would provide toe inputs
for assessing toe program.
Individual self-evaluation was
done by each instructor who rated
his own teaching effectiveness.
His form included such questions as/ do you come prepared
for your class and do you feel
dent preparation within sequence
classes as History 101 and 102.
If an instructor found that students from a particular class
were not sufficiently prepared
for the following sequence class
it was noted on this form.
DISCUSSIONS OCCURED
The department chairman also
had a turn in evaluating all the
instructors in his particular department. The result of this
evaluating was a discussion between toe instructor and the department chairman to determine
how any situations might be improved. ,
The final evaluation gave students an opportunity to voice a
confidential opinion on their own
classes an instructors.    A fac-
your system of grading is fair,    ulty member issued students a
questionnaire for a class and
instructor other than himself.
Students filled out arid returned
approximately 85,000 sheets
which were audited by data processing, it was stressed that
during the processing no stud-
dents confidences were violated.
Each instructor was given an
evaluation form containing all
his department collegues. He
was to,. in turn, evaluate each
one, citing particular instances
of meritorious work within toe
department. This particular e-
valuation held a clue as to stu-
All results were turned over
to the Dean's office who received
copies of each instructor evaluations within their school. By
looking at toe data, they hoped
to point out obvious areas of
correction, Buckew said..
At present, the Council of
Deans is employing two groups,
a student evaluation of faculty
and professional evaluatorsfrom
toe psychology department to
form new questions for the system.
One additional possibility to
better the form questions was the
opportunity for individual instructors to pose their own questions. These questions would be
typed with the original forms
before distributing to students*
However, lack of time prohibited much of this last semester.
Bucklew said they were discouraged because of lack of time
and flaws in the magnitude of the
project, but he added, the accomplishments far over- rided
toe temporary setbacks.
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