Posts Tagged ‘academic freedom’
June 2 - Reasons You Could be Disciplined, Fired, or Sued
By: Mary Bart in Faculty Development
A parent calls you to ask how her son is doing in your class. Her son, a first-year student, began the semester well but recently started missing class and turning in assignments late. The mother says she’s worried about him and wants to know if he’s showing up for class, how his grades are, and if he will pass your class.
December 18 - Student Evaluations of Instructors: A Bad Thing?
By: John N. McDaniel, PhD in Academic Leadership, Faculty Evaluation
In yesterday’s post, it was argued that perhaps student evaluations were not, in Martha Stewart’s famous phrase, “a good thing,” given doubts about the qualifications of students to judge instructors, questionable validity of the evaluation instrument, threats to academic freedom, and misuse by administrators. Every college instructor subjected to student evaluation, myself included, has probably
