UWP Lecturers grades

[Kathleen Gurnett]

This is getting out of hand. Wednesday? I knew they had shortened the time period, but Wednesday?? 

Kathleen


-----Original Message-----
>From: John Stamp <john.stamp at ucr.edu>
>Sent: Mar 13, 2010 3:27 PM
>To: englecturers at lists.ucr.edu
>Subject: Re: UWP Lecturers grades
>
>On Saturday 13 March 2010 11:09:20 am skay at ucr.edu wrote:
>> There is no way that we can be required to turn in grades by Friday,
>> at noon.  The date igrade gives is the date by which we should abide.
>>  Of course, if it is convenient for you to get them in earlier, do
>> so. It’s not as if we all don’t want to get our grading done as
>> quickly as possible, but this is a work load issue – akin to be asked
>> to speed up on a factory line.
>>
>> We are being asked for this speed-up because there aren’t enough
>> classes being offered in the spring and the UWP administration wants
>> to get ahead of the float.  If the program is so concerned about
>> students and their classes, they should open up more classes.  This
>> is a mess of the administration’s making, and our pedagogical
>> concerns shouldn't be constrained by their administrative ones.
>
>Yes, this does seem to be abusing our genuine goodwill to help our 
>students.  It's even worse for the English 4/5 instructors.  We're told 
>to have lecture grades ready by Wednesday the 17th.
>
>These deadlines are getting too short.  I feel like I'm caught in a 
>debate with Lear's daughters: "What need one?"
>
>John Stamp
>
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