Pace Te THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, March Z6, 1969 T ~, TE IHGA ALYWdesaMac 6,-6 RC sets student-faculty panel to evaluate teaching quality LSA unit releases By BARD MONTGOMERY tor, Associate Dean James Robert- Lang said. "It would come into The Representative Assembly of son. operation when informal channels the Residential College last night The committee is charged with break down." unanimously adopted a proposal "recognizing teaching excellence", "The student needs a formal calling for a student-faculty com- as well as to "taking note of fa- line of communication to the fa- 'Continued from Page i> mittee empowered to evaluate the culty members who are unsuccess- cuity," states the proposal, "to According to Tikofsky. Dean performance of teachers. ful in teaching at the Residential work out classroom problems Stephen Spurr of the graduate The committee, to be composed College, and making appropriate whenever the informal contact has school felt that a degree program of four students and four faculty suggestions to the director." failed to give results. lacking distribution or concentra- members, will have no executive The proposal was offered by "The faculty needs feedback on tion requirements would not hurt authority, ind will be restricted to James Lang, Grad, a Resident courses and machinery for re- a student's chance for admission gathering information and advis- Fellow and instructor at the RC. cognizing teaching excellences to graduate schools. ing the directer of RC on parti- Lang chaired a study group which "The administration (would be cular faculty members. formulated the proposal. provided) with an added basis for "Spurr was more interested in Information may only be gath- "We don't see it as an RC com- making decisions concerning fa- how the students did in the ered at the intiative of the direc- mittee on non-RC activities' ", culty." courses they took." Tikofsky ex- _ _ __ -Lang indicated that the inform- plains. ation collected by ,the committee Tikof sky b e I i e v e s graduate " "would be made available to a schools and industry will respect ~ter le eteacher's department for tenure the degree program and look at decisions at their request, but we the quality of, the student's per- won't be sending around dossiers." formance in his undergraduate j The proposal was presented for curriculum. b y SD Sr discussion at last month's regular The committee was set up at the meeting of the RC faculty. Faculty last regular meeting of the college members generally expressed their faculty, March 3. during discus- (Continued from Page 1) security officer for the University, willingness to accept the plan, sion of the language requirement. against SDS, or at least against read the sit-in ban to the stu- but opposed an alternative which At that meeting, faculty mem- the individuals involved in t h e dents and told them they were in would permit the valuation com- bers postponed discussion of the protest. violation of civil law and g a v e mittee to make tenure recom- requirement because they said Esterl said he would attempt to them five minutes to leave. mendations to the director. they could not reach a decision settle the matter through the The protest lasted until 3 p.m. Under the adopted plan, t h e until they had heard the report of Central Student Judiciary. we dmosrtsdcidtocommittee will function on an ex- Ceta tdn uiir-when demonstrators decided to pemna iu iA l 1 the degree committee. He said he will charge the pro- leave the office. At this time there pe imental basis until April, 1970.e degree thttee. tesers SD an inivduas wth as lagenumer f egineiAt that time its success will be Also at that meeting, faculty testers, SDS and individuals with was a large number of engineer- praed y h Reesntiemembers declined to vote on violating the portion of the SGC igsuetinheofc.appraised by the Representativemebsdclndt voe n code banning disruptive sit-ins. Dan Grdon Van Wyen Assembly in deciding to renew or Smith's proposal for the Bachelor Bloch said yesterday afternoon Dean Gordon an Wyle l of the dissolve the committee. of General Studies, and decided to Bhe wasacsiderig brngin engineering college told the pro- The proposal stipulates that fa- set up the committee instead. lhe was considering brcuging testors if t they left he would culty menbers being evaluated by Passing the resolution to set up and battery. However, he has not have the engineering students' the committee "should be inform- the committee was officially inter- adeleave too. He also said, "I don't ed as to the undertaking of such preted as being favorable toward The entire incident was discus- want to see a confrontation be- an assessment." "the idea" of a new degree. Many Teer indtaidelt , tween students." A further safeguard provides faculty members, however, said dedn Relats it me eting. that "information of a personal they voted to set up the committee ing, Prof. Robert Knauss of the SDS will hold a mass meeting nature regarding faculty members to avoid passage of Smith's pro- law school said that current Re- on militarism tonight at 7:30 in will be destroyed after being kept posal, and that they were against gents' bylaws allow a student to room 3G of the Union. on file one year. the idea of a new degree. be prosecuted in a student court for violation of civil laws. I Knauss praised the decision by police officials to check with the University administration before responding to Bloch's call. It was the consensus of SRC PAY NOW AND AVOID members that action against t h eI protesters should be taken. How- ever, most of the members agreed the action should be initiated by A IVICKLI) M the aggrieved parties, and not by the administration. 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