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Meeting - CUFA - Council - 17th Jan
17th Jan 9:30 am
zoom
Ottawa Course evaluations
- Is the course outline clear?
- does the class meet on time?
- submitted work - is it assessed promptly?
- outside office hours available / adequate
- does the professor treat the students fairly?
Course evaluations
CUFA did a course evaluation / student questionaire exercise, coming up with 20 new questions
Can this be shared?
CUFA were opposed to Faculty members using it / have the choice due to potential for selection bias.
“Student Learning Experience Questionnaire”
Ian Rakita seems to disapprove of the Learning Experience feedback form “it's like a course evaluation”
June Chalkelson wants the council to actually review the detail of the questions - check structure
“part of the issue is to get rid of the part-time course evaluation in the long run which most of us agree are pretty useless”
Ida Karamfazil - Should teaching evaluations be included in a tenure application?
Peer review - can ask another Faculty Member to sit in
Roy Cross - Cinema and Design
Collective Agreement
discussions will really start in FALL and continue into 2023
series of constituency meetings
when to have those meetings?
Covid return
hard to return to in person
Roy Cross - maybe we need to get on with it and learn to live with it (paraphrase)
Pensions
COdy - something regarding LTAs and article being applied to their pensions
can we get more details?
Elections Committee
there will be an election - they will receive nominations
