[From Division Chair Jason Stajich] Report of the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Evaluation of Teaching

[Senate]

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May 5, 2021

Dear Colleagues,

Since Spring 2018 and at the request of then Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Richard Cardullo, a Senate ad hoc committee has met to evaluate the use of the student teaching evaluations. I want to take this opportunity to express gratitude to Chair David Nelson and the entire committee<https://senate.ucr.edu/committee/?do=info&id=106> who completed this work partially through a pandemic. Their attached report and recommendations represent thoughtful and thorough examination of the use of student teaching evaluations and articulate a vision for solutions that begin to address biases in the system.

Senate and faculty executive committees reviewed the report and have provided additional context, suggestions, and support for the propositions and substance of the report. Importantly, as was raised in the Senate review, maintaining these evaluations was seen as an important aspect of giving students a voice in the evaluation of the instruction they receive, but that biases in evaluation which unequally impact our faculty need to be mitigated in how these evaluations are used in career advancement reviews.

Our next steps will be to plan changes informed by the report through coordination with the Provost, Associate Provost, Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Education, Vice Provost for Academic Personnel, and Office of Assessment.  I will continue to communicate proposed plans of change to the Student Evaluations and seek input from Senate committees as the plan is crystalized.

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Jason


Attached: Final Report from the Ad Hoc Committee on Evaluation of Teaching and related committees' feedback



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