SENATE DOCUMENT #8

           POLICY FOR STUDENT EVALUATION OF FACULTY AND COURSES


It is recommended that the faculty adopt the following policies for
student evaluation of courses and instructors.  This evaluation will
be in two parts:


                                 PART A

Part A of the evaluation will be for the use of the individual
professor as an aid in evaluating his personal effectiveness and 
the department in analyzing its program.  

  I.	Objectives of Part A:

	A.  To give the instructor information useful in the improvement
	    of course design and teaching methods.

	B.  To provide for students an avenue of communication to the
	    instructor and department.

	C.  To aid the department in evaluating its programs.

 II.	Designing and establishing the evaluation:

	A.  Each department will design its own evaluation.  Mr. Felder
	    of Institutional Research is knowledgeable in the area and
	    is willing to help.

	B.  The evaluation should be designed to give information useful
	    in the improvement of course design and teaching methods as
	    well as student opinion about the effectiveness of the
	    instructor.

	C.  Evaluation procedures should be designed to cover non-typical
	    offerings within the department, such as internships, 
	    laboratories, composition courses.

	D.  Students will be involved with the design of the evaluation.

	E.  The evaluation must be approved by the members of the
	    department.

	F.  Copies of the evaluation plan, the department's procedures 
	    for administering it, and any instruments to be used will be
	    placed on file in the library, the office of the Vice Chancellor
	    for Academic Affairs, and the department.

	G.  This new evaluation process is to begin at the end of Term I,
	    Spring semester, 1978-79.

III.	Administering the evaluation:

	A.  The department chairman is responsible for ensuring that the
	    evaluation is done in each course and section for each instructor
	    according to the established procedures.

	B.  Results will be compiled and stored by the department.

	C.  Results will be made available in some form to the instructor's
	    department chairman, and if appropriate, to the supervisor of
	    any program (such as Humanities) within which the course is
	    offered.

	D.  The results are to be used by the instructor and the department
	    chairman.

	E.  Each department's evaluation program will be reviewed periodically
	    by the office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs to
	    determine if evaluations are being conducted regularly and in
	    conformity with the spirit of these guidelines.


                                   PART B

Part B of the evaluation will consist of a questionnaire, administered
according to Paragraphs 111.A. and 111.B. above.  The student-completed
questionnaires will be sent through the proper channels in personnel
decisions.

A task force formed by the Executive Committee of the Senate in
consultation with the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs will devise
the questionnaire, it will be returned to the Senate for discussion
and approval.