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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">May 5, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk71102668"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk71102668"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Since Spring 2018 and at the request of then Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Richard Cardullo, a Senate<i>
</i>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
</span></span><a href="https://senate.ucr.edu/committee/?do=info&id=106"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk71102668"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">entire committee</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk71102668"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk71102668"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk71102668"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk71102668"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk71102668"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jason<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk71102668"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Attached: Final Report from the Ad Hoc Committee on Evaluation of Teaching and related committees’ feedback</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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