University of Virginia Library

Curriculum Group Seeks Help
For Compiling Of Evaluations

By Thom Faulders
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

With an increased emphasis on
"readability and completeness,"
the Curriculum Evaluation Committee
of the Student Council will
again publish a catalogue to help
University students to preregister
this spring.

The Committee is in need of
assistant editors to help with the
organizational work involved in
publishing the booklet. Jere Adams,
co-chairman of the Committee with
Jackson Lears, stressed that the
position of assistant editor will
involve a great deal of work and
responsibility.

He noted that the assistants
would be responsible for writing
summaries for each course as well
as compiling statistics and recording
the consensus of opinions. He will
work directly under the department
editors who will, in turn, be
responsible to Mr. Lears and Mr.
Abrams.

All those students interested in
working with the Committee are
invited to attend an organizational
and instructional meeting Wednesday
night at 6:30 in 4A of
Newcomb Hall.

Mr. Abrams outlined the organizational
structure of the Committee
and explained its permanent nature
for future reference. The Committee
is headed by the co-chairmen
who oversee nine divisions
Each of these divisions will be
responsible for evaluating two or
three of the College's departments.
"The division that will evaluate the
English department, for instance,
because of its large size, would only
be responsible for reviewing one
other department," noted Mr.
Abrams.

These divisions will be headed
by an editor who will be responsible
for all evaluations submitted
by the assistant editors under him.
The Committee is looking for
persons to fill these positions.

The Committee is also proceeding
with plans to establish a
permanent office in the basement
of one of the McCormick Road
Dormitories. This office will contain
files containing all the forms
that have been filled out and will be
used by any professors or department
chairmen for reference concerning
student opinion of a particular
course.

The projected date for completion
of the project, according to
Mr. Abrams, is April 1. "It will be
in excess of 100 pages," he
explained, "because every class will
have a critique written from student
comments."

The critique will summarize the
general opinion of the class from the
students who filled out the evaluation.

The more than 17,000 forms
that were returned are being compiled
for a twofold purpose: to help
students preregister; and to provide
a feedback mechanism for faculty
and administrators to revise and
strengthen their courses.