MENU CATEGORIES

Connect with us

Submit a Tip
MENU CATEGORIES
Posts Tagged with "course evaluations"

For everyone who has completed their course evaluations out of spite, to make the pop-ups go away, this one’s for you.

Read More

We’re told that our “candid appraisal is very much appreciated.” Let’s hold the administration to that. 

Read More

Quality of Life Survey At Friday’s University Senate Plenary, four student senators – Marc Heinrich (Columbia College), Ramis Wadood (Columbia College), Emily Moore (SEAS Grad Students), and Grace Kelley (Nursing School) – gave an in-depth presentation on the quality of life survey sent out last year. General information has already been distributed by the Senate, […]

Read More

This just in from Sarah Ngu, who followed the exhaustive debate at the Senate’s plenary session this afternoon. However, the decision to recommend that the university’s schools implement public course evaluations does not mean they are mandated to release the evaluations. For the majority of the debate, which lasted an hour and a half, the […]

Read More

This afternoon, at 1:15 pm in Jerome Green Hall, the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) will bring a ground-breaking resolution to the Senate floor: public course evaluations. Well… ground-breaking for Columbia. Resident Know-It-Most Sarah Ngu brings us up to speed on what this means and why it could be a BFD. Why don’t we already publicize online […]

Read More

Over the last few weeks, your correspondent has received a total of seven automatic reminders to fill out course evaluations (i.e. spam) and three personal emails from professors requesting that their evaluations be completed. And they are pretty important—filling out course evaluations lets professors know what works and what doesn’t in their classes. Unfortunately, course […]

Read More

CCSC holds weekly meetings. Brian Wagner attended one of them last night. This is what he saw. The meeting opened with a discussion of a new committee. Bureaucracy!  The special committee would tackle co-sponsorship requests. At present, groups requesting co-sponsorships from the different student councils schlep to four different meetings to present their case. If a new committee […]

Read More

You may have remembered Bwog’s last attempt to aid you in your schedule. Below, we’ve matched courses offered this Spring to a variety of personalities in an effort to create the perfect schedule. If you have any other suggestions, email bwog@columbia.edu and we’ll post them! For the Ontologist: Spring 2009 Anthropology G6044 THE PRODUCTION OF […]

Read More

As registration nears, Bwog worries many of you remain undecided in choosing your fall 2008 classes. To help the undecided and unsure, we’ve compiled a list of some of the most promising-sounding courses. Know of interesting sounding classes? Send them our way (bwog@columbia.edu) and we’ll update the list. Specificity is a Construct Fall 2008 Art […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

Course evaluations, once the ideal time-killer for those last awkward 15 minutes of lecture, have been going digital for a while now, and it looks like they’ll be on courseworks from here on out. A couple of luddite professors seemed peeved by the change, weighing in with comments like: – “Reading between the lines of […]

Read More

At last night’s CCSC meeting, a proposal to work towards a centralized course evaluation system was passed unanimously. Academic Affairs Representative Alidad Damooei ’09, who co-wrote the proposal with Class of 2008 President Neda Navab, has been meeting with the Office of the Vice President for Arts and Sciences to come up with a uniform […]

Read More

Have Your Say

What is the Baroness having for afternoon tea?

View Results

Loading ... Loading …

Recent Comments

we do!!! the several hundred dollars we get from them aren't anywhere close to enough to fix the issues here. (read more)
Columbia Club Sports Operations Curtailed In Wake Of New Travel Policies And Funding Restrictions
March 18, 2024
What is the Columbia tuition? These clubs should be accessible to all students and Columbia should fund them. (read more)
Columbia Club Sports Operations Curtailed In Wake Of New Travel Policies And Funding Restrictions
March 18, 2024
couldnt agree more (read more)
A Hate Letter To AHA Sparkling Water
March 13, 2024

Comment Policy

The purpose of Bwog’s comment section is to facilitate honest and open discussion between members of the Columbia community. We encourage commenters to take advantage of—without abusing—the opportunity to engage in anonymous critical dialogue with other community members. A comment may be moderated if it contains:
  • A slur—defined as a pejorative derogatory phrase—based on ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, or spiritual belief
  • Hate speech
  • Unauthorized use of a person’s identity
  • Personal information about an individual
  • Baseless personal attacks on specific individuals
  • Spam or self-promotion
  • Copyright infringement
  • Libel
  • COVID-19 misinformation