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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1980
Liberal arts faculty approves
plan for free elective hours
By GAIL WEATHERLY
Campus Reporter
Liberal arts students now have the
option to include nine hours of free
electives in their degree plans, effec
tive immediately.
The College of Liberal Arts faculty
approved this and discussed grades
and grading standards at its meeting
Thursday afternoon.
“There have been some restric
tions on what we would allow as elec
tives before, and now there are
none,” Diane W. Strommer, associ
ate dean of liberal arts, said.
Students in liberal arts have the
right to choose any course in the Uni
versity, as long as it is not in his major
field or an advanced ROTC course,
and have it included in the 128 hours
on his degree plan.
This also means that transfer stu
dents can have nine hours applied to
their degree plan that previously
might not have applied. Strommer
said they will work with each student
on an individual basis.
In a discussion on grades, Dr.
David W. Maxwell, dean of the col-
. lege, said grades are getting better.
“but not that much better.”
He also said that professors have a
great deal to do with students’
grades.
“When a professor after six semes
ters has trouble finding C, D and F
students, you begin to worry,” Max
well said. “And the same is true ab
out a professor who finds very few A
students.”
Maxwell urged the faculty mem
bers to worry about “standards and
equity.
“There is a significant variation be
tween grading standards being util-
’ ized in different sections of the same
.course,” he said.
j It was also brought up by Dr.
Bruce Dickson, assistant professor of
anthropology and chairman of the
Teaching Excellence Committee,
that some faculty members need to
comply with the instructions that
come with faculty evaluation forms
by leaving the room while students
fill them out and making sure the
students turn them in.
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Dickson said student confidence
in this type of analysis is destroyed if
the professors remain in the room
and turn the forms in themselves,
i Maxwell also told the faculty that
jobs for the summer of 1981 looked
scarce, and a soft moan filtered
, through the group.
Bruce Dickson, assistant professor of anthro
pology and chairman of the Teaching Excell
ence Committee, discusses the importance of
the teacher evaluations given at the end of
each semester at a College of Liberal^ 01 ^ '
faculty meeting Tuesday. At right 111 '
of the College of Liberal Arts, W. baviiiliy^ ^|
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2:45 p.m.
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“Technology:
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Thursday, February 14
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“The Effects of Technology
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Friday, February 15
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SAMUEL FL0RM0N
“Technology is the Answer
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But That’s Not the Question”