WASC: UASH meeting, 3 Apr 06

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Meeting with UASH on 3 April 2005. Present: Richard Murray and Brad Fillipone

Areas that we might consider looking into:

• Quality of teaching
  • Princeton review (be careful of methodology)
  • Have a way to rebut it?
• Core curriculum
  • Mix of courses
• Workload issues
  • Workload is quite high, different years for different options
  • Underuniting of courses is probably the bigger issue
  • Large variability in what students can accomplish
• Be careful not to make suggestions for change that may not be required
  • Don't let the process drive us to change if we don't need it
• UG Research Committee: data show that Caltech might be good for student's self-confidence
  • This might be a bad thing
  • Caltech students seem more dispirited
• Student mental health
  • Be careful about confidentiality

Data to gather

• Student/Faculty conference notes
• Exit survey: needs to be ready 1 May