WASC 2005-03-07
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Present: Richard, Brad, Jean, Niles, Csilla, Nate
1. Introductions
2. Overview of WASC Process (see WASC home)
3. Discussion - what are the issues we should consider as possible topics for further study
- Q: What are the issues the students see as the big deals?
- Weekly homeworks, especially in the core
- Not enough freshman humanities courses
- Underuniting (across the board)
- Course evaluations
- Evaluations are ridiculous: some people feel we shouldn't have them, some people feel they are underutilized
- New online version is available for core courses (apparently much better)
- Students are much more critical face to face than on the forms
- Ch 1: take 5 people to lunch right after class and ask how things went
- Technological: most people aren't ready to implement solutions that exist; Caltech could facilitate this
- New ways of teaching
- Lectureless teaching of Ph, Ch, EE, etc
- Experimental class to see how things work out
- Integrated core
- Faculty evaluation
- Better system of award/penalty
- More transparency: what is a raise for, how was it evaluated
- Improving teaching
- Get faculty to go to other faculty member courses (not enough)
- Undergraduate TAs
- Video tape + feedback (but painful)