View source for WASC 2005-03-07

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Present: Richard, Brad, Jean, Niles, Csilla, Nate

1. Introductions

2. Overview of WASC Process (see [[WASC|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)