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Big news in the case for transparency in academia: Starting in the spring, CC students may be able to view the results of their course evaluations online—specifically colorful bar graphs illustrating the section in which students rank the class and the professor from 1-5. CCSC has been working on the project since last year, but ESC has already been doing this for quite some time with a program called Oracle. “Knowledge is power,” proclaims Oracle. Indeed!
Daily reminder e-mails make it pretty hard to forget that it’s course evaluation season, but CCSC Policy dude Alidad Damooei says that the spiffy new system will only become reality if you actually fill them out: “I am pretty confident that the project will come to fruition but the ONLY [his emphasis] possible threat is a low response rate,” Damooei explained in an email.
TAs, meanwhile, have been sweetly suggesting that their students do their academic duty and fill out the evaluations, especially if they’ve had a good time in the class. According to one source, the instructions they were given pronounce that “personal encouragement” is the best way to ensure a high participation rate.
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@well, Harvard doesn’t have a version of CULPA…
@um... i’m pretty damn sure having a barbecue once a semester doesn’t really count as having done anything, i’m still waiting on the wireless i was promised freshman year
esc = monumental fail
@grr OK, am I the only one who’s completely annoyed by the 5 emails I get a day regarding course evaluations? Look, Columbia, I’ll do them when I have a spare moment, but since you’ve decided to swamp me with too much work for my fragile brain to handle right now, just LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE. An e-mail once every other day would be ENOUGH. I AM GETTING TO THEM, CHILL THE FUCK OUT.
ok, I guess I need to chill too. But jesus, how annoying.
@ZvS Last year’s finest: “You will be reminded every 0 days until this evaluation is completed.”
Actually, we harassed CUIT about this at a focus group and they said they’d tone it down… in 12 to 18 months. Really.
@... Election politics have already begun! I’m so ready for an Alidad v. Krebs slugfest. Bring on the mud and let Bwog sling it.
@mea culpa Incidentally, after a little perusal of the statistics posted on Oracle, I must say that I find the Culpa reviews to be, strangely enough, far more accurate.
@yo. i like this alidad guy. he helped push for the awesome new p/f policy.
@damn straight alidad is the shit. he pushed the councils to give more money to sgb and cut funding for CI.
fuck krebs. he’s just jealous of michelle and alidad’s shiny success.
@why's that so cool? the way i see it all that money going to SGB is just going to be wasted on humanitarian groups that don’t actually do anything. that money would probably have been better spent by CI which actually helps people directly.
@well krebs hates religion, so he wants to fuck sgb.
alidad hates harlem, so he wants to fuck ci.
@hmmm i’m not sure where this theory came that alidad cut CI’s money… wouldn’t make sense since he used to be president of a charity group, blue key society, which does charity and fundraising
@actually... alidad had nothing to do with the funding process.
@democracy Well, apparently democracy doesn’t always pay.
@no shit don’t you pay attention in Contemp Civ? the ideal form of government is enlightened despotism. which is ESC. no politicking, just pure ass kicking.
@luck You have to be pretty darn lucky to land an enlightened despot.
@columbian i’m in cc and i wish ccsc was more like esc. ccsc never actually gets anything done!
@SEAS is still 100 steps behind CCSC in democracy.
and no one pays for culpa: it’s an independent service. hardly fair to complain about what people have given up their time to contribute to and maintain, outside the university purview.
@course Students have been demanding public course evals probably since as long they’ve demanded changes in advising (i.e. since most of us the younger undergrads were still in middle school).
Just for comparison’s sake, not only are harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences evals open to students, but they have a team of people who’s job it is to analyze all the data, written and numerical.
@hahhvard Harvard was, is, and always will be ahead of us in everything. It’s a fact of life.
@SEAS should advertise that they’ve been posting course evals. This is the first time I’ve heard about them. Would’ve been pretty useful for.. all of my classes.
@dude you should have paid attention in gateway.
@yesyesyes please, please, please let this not be lost in the labyrinthine Columbia bureaucracy. this is the way undergrad education should be. i am sick of hearing from jocks and nerds on culpa but have a right to know what i’m paying $5,000 for.
@ZvS Did you take Gateway? That said, I don’t trust the evaluations.
@CC 08 I have come to the conclusion that those on ESC must genuinely care about change while those on CCSC are simply mindless politickers.
@really? Have you ever met Liz Straus? Do you think she cares about anything other than herself?
@the Man Well, clearly you have never met Liz StrausS. a) because you can’t spell her name correctly, and b) because anyone who knows her is aware that she is one of the most impassioned and dedicated student leaders that the school has. She is certainly far more effective than CCSC… not to mention, not nearly as shallow and superficial as many of her peers on the other undergrad councils
@...er hook, link, and sinkER!
@err I guess you deleted that part. Because it sucked.
@... Alidad Damooei is actually one of the cooler students on CCSC. He’s done a whole lot of great things. I think that he would make a great student body president
@Yes, but can he spell confident?
@fuck Alidad Krebs will make a great president. alidad is all talk, total suck. Krebs is portly, gregarious, and hates diamond. hooray for George!
@hey This was the sposored link above my gmail inbox just now:
“Columbia General Studies – http://www.GS.Columbia.edu/mystory – Need to Finish Your Undergrad? Consider Columbia’s GS School.”
I didn’t know GS was advertising on gmail?
@douche nice spelling, ‘confidant’ alidad
@well at least CC is 200 steps in front of SEAS in terms of social skills
@steps More like 200 steps behind SEAS.