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Adam Bennett
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UNCG students to ‘grade’ professors
in online poll
UNCG – The University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s
Student Government Association (UNCG-SGA) is letting students
electronically “grade” their professors.
Starting this semester, students are being asked to fill out a
professor survey on the UNCG-SGA Web site that will ask them to
rate their professors from “excellent” to “poor”
and provide specifics about the professor’s performance.
“We’re just trying to do something for students,”
said Chris Young, UNCG-SGA vice president. “It’s something
that lets them give some feedback, sort of empowers them.”
The short survey asks students only to rank professors they have
had for classes, but can be taken anonymously. This and a few
other technical problems have some UNCG-SGA delegates calling
the survey “a joke.”
“This is just more BS to make it look like [UNCG-SGA] is
doing something,” said one delegate who asked not to be identified.
“If you don’t have to sign the survey, anyone could
take it and say anything about anyone. Professors could even take
it themselves, or people who don’t go to the school. It’s
completely arbitrary.”
“If the university isn’t going to use the results for
anything, then we’re just talking to ourselves,” the
delegate said. “It’s unreliable as an actual survey,
and in the end it won’t even mean anything.”
Young said it is true UNCG-SGA does not quite know what it will
do with the results yet, but they are looking to award the teachers
with the highest ratings, perhaps giving them “Professor
of the Year” awards.
“We don’t know yet if we’re going to do a plaque
or what yet,” Young said. “We’d like to have some
sort of recognition to the professors that students think are
doing the best job.”
Young said he hopes the surveys will be complete and the results
calculated by the Fall Semester - just in time for class registration.
View the poll on UNCG-SGA’s Web site at http://sga.uncg.edu.
Candidates Say Reform Helped, Hurt Campaigns
UNCCH – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student
Body President-elect Matt Tepper said a recent campaign reform
act forced candidates to spend money more wisely.
As election season winds down, many former UNC-CH candidates said
they think the Larson-Daum Campaign Reform Act of 2002 had a decidedly
large impact, both negatively and positively, on this year’s
SGA election.
UNC-CH Student Body President Jen Daum and then-student congress
speaker Tony Larson drew up the act, which was passed in November,
to level the playing field during campaigning.
Daum said one of the major intentions of the act was to push candidates
to use their funds more efficiently.
Tepper said the new campaign reform guidelines, which significantly
reduced the amount of money candidates could spend on their campaigns,
mandated that funds used be provided by the UNCCH student congress
and shortened the campaign season - forced candidates to be more
thrifty.
Tepper’s campaign manager, Ben Adams, said although the campaign
relied on past methods to publicize, the shortened season affected
their creativity.
“It made us a little more resourceful,” Adams said.
“We still used the same techniques people used last year.”
Among the stipulations of the new campaign guidelines, candidates
were not allowed to post fliers, posters, pins or any other kind
of campaign materials until two weeks before the election. In
previous years this time period was three weeks.
The act also required candidates to obtain substantially
more petition signatures to be put on the ballot. |
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