QUEENS COLLEGE–On April 10th, members of the Queens College Academic Senate came together for their monthly meeting in Kiely Hall room 170 to discuss changes to existing policies and resolve matters from previous meetings.
The Academic Senate is a 60 member governing body composed of 40 faculty and 20 student members, responsible for creating and voting on policies relating to curriculum, admissions and retention of students, and campus life, among other areas. At their most recent meeting, the senate voted on changes to course evaluations, the minimum credit residency requirement at QC, and received a report from QC Chief Information Officer Troy Hahn about how the library website went down.
At the April meeting, the Senate voted on changes to student course evaluations for the first time since 2008.
Student course evaluations are the surveys emailed to students at the end of the semester to assess the course they have taken that semester. Their purpose is to give instructors feedback, provide data for chairs and promotion committees to use and to allow students to have a voice in their educational experience.
Although the purpose of student course evaluations is to provide teachers more detailed feedback from students, there’s still one major aspect that garnered attention.
