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From: gln@cs.arizona.edu (Gary Newell)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Education Awards?
Message-ID: <27305@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 90 04:32:40 GMT
References: <1990Nov08.234642.29304@groucho>
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Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <1990Nov08.234642.29304@groucho>, jff@groucho (Jim Frenzel) writes:
> Our Electrical Engineering department is considering faculty annual
> faculty awards for teaching and research.  I would be interested in
> hearing from other schools with similar awards how nominations are
> collected and evaluated.

Here at Arizona the college of Arts and Sciences has awards for distinguished
lecturers who are nominated by their departments. Unfortunately, in my 
opinion (I'm a grad student), the award has very little to do with teaching
skill and has more to do with "who hasn't gotten the $1000 yet?" - it is
really a shame since there are many quality faculty members here who can
in fact teach very well.

 I for one would say that having any kind of teaching award without DIRECT, 
decisive input from students is absurd. They are the ones who know who
the best teachers are - not the dept. head, not other faculty......

			gln