The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 4

A4 The Knoxville News-Sentinel Saturday April 20 1991 EAST TENNESSEE UT rating surveys ruffling the feathers of faculty members The problem is they cant seem to agree "There are equal very valid points for both rides of any she said Faculty members are still Broadhead said he will provide his colleagues with copies of the teaching survey he handed out on his own According to Marian Moffett professor of architecture and a chairwoman of the committee tial so students started their own standardized evaluations that are published in a booklet each semester The third survey is one that individual departments have started at the urging of the chancellor and his staff It includes peer reviews of the problem is there are GRADING too many evaluation Teacher? Efforts that helped develop the faculty survey is valid and win prove useful when the kind of climate in which you need to encourage someone to work on improving said Dr Lee Hum-uhreys director of the Learning fesearch Center Mathematics Professor Lou Gnu said no reason the mandatory evaluation can't help professors improve and provide a guide for promotion and raises As it is now the system is "statistically said Gross one of the loudest critics "There are three different evaluations held in any classroom The students get irked with an thta the faculty get irked You feel some responsibility to let the students respond but enough is quired to collect from his or her students The survey was developed for use in deciding who gets promotions and pay raises say UT officials Tom Broadhead an associate professor who is up for promotion spoke up at a recent faculty meeting to uy he has collected the forms for three semesters but has only received the results of six students surveyed from a night class "Two thought I wu fantastic Two thought 1 wu acceptable Two thought I wu absolutely horrible It really doesn't mean said Broadhead who hu chosen to conduct optional surveys on his own Now up for promotion Rankings influence pay and promotions By Marti Date NPIvwiwW Nn nnw Three different surveys are used to evaluate teachers at the University of Tennessee and the system is getting poor marks from frustrated professors A mandatory administration survey handed out in every class throughout the university has been criticized by faculty as a boondoggle that help professors unprove their teaching and isn't supposed to The results of this officially sanctioned survey are confiden not Intended to help improve their teaching1 Moffett "This is designed to evaluate for personnel decision-making tenure promotion and merit pay if we ever come to a year where there is merit There are plenty of other evaluations The most helpful in improving teaching faculty members say are those offered by UTs Learning Research Center The results are confidential patterns start to be established over a period of time She said administrative prob-1 lems brought on much of the criticism but a new administrator and having the surveys processed by the state testing center have solved most of the difficulties Administrator Nancy McCormack hu asked department heads for suggested changes systems None of them working very well" said Anne Mayhew president of the Faculty Senate None however is as controversial as the official six-question survey each professor is re Grand jury to get college beating case Winners announced in Knoxville Area Fair Housing Poster Contest Assault and drug against two Knoxville students accused of beating a campus security officer were sent Friday to a grand jury An assault charge against a third student was dismissed by Judge Geoff Emery following a hearing in City Sessions Court Donnell Alexander 21 Jar-rod Gillespie 20 and Sylvester Dixson 21 were charged Jan 29 with beating Officer Steven Jones about 1:30 am Jones who no longer works for the college testified he was patrding the campus when he noticed Alexander had a wine The men were arrested a few minutes later by Knoxville police Officers charged Gillespie with possession of marijuana for resale after they dicovered six hand-rolled marijuana cigarettes "If this is possession for resale on this evidence I might as wen practice law in Bucksnort said attorney James AJL Ben said Emery agreed and reduced the charge to simple possession Emery refiised to reduce a possession of cocaine for resale charge against Alexander Officers round 13 sman packets of cocaine in a jacket pocket When Jones asked for the alcohol Alexander refused Alexander struck Jones in the eye and Jones retaliated with Ms flashlight Jones testified When Alexander "started again Jones Mt him on the head witha flashlight he said Jones "went Alexander and "got hit from the right" from another man Jones testified Emery dismissed charges against Dixson Emery refused to dismiss charges against Gillespie because "due to the positioning of the persons involved more probably than not he was the person who Jones Jennifer Julian Chilhowee Baptist Academy Resource Development John Williams Knox County Occupational Training SchooL Second Place: Primary Eric Steele Eastport Elementary School IntermediateMiddle Meagan Hickman Alcoa Middle School Youth Andrea Moore West High School Resource Development Courtney Hill Knox County Occupational SchooL Third Place: Primary Ta-mika Tate Green Elementary IntermediateMiddle Andrea Wiley Kams Intermediate SChool Youth Abeni Sallie Kerns Middle School Resource Development Dontrell Booker Knox County Occupational Training SchooL Each winner received a cash award phis a certificate a goblet and a dock The winning group visited with Knoxville businessman and former Olympic track star Ralph Boston They also toured the University of Tennessee Knoxville Beck Cultural Exchange Center and the Fair Park Winners of the Knoxville Area Fair Housing Poster Contest kindergarten through ninth-grade students in Knox Anderson Blount and Sevier Counties were announced during a recent Knoxville Area Fair Housing Conference Awards Luncheon Contestants drew posters depicting the need for world puce equality justice and unity in the housing industry based on the theme: "Creating a world of peaceful The poster contest is part of educating the public about the Fair Housing Law which prohibits discrimination in housing based on race color religion sex nationality physical and mental disabilityhandicaps or family status Out of 300-plus entries the following winners were selected: First Place: Primary Karen Harris Eastport Elementary School IntermediateMiddle Caleb Gray Porter Elementary School Youth Andrea Hunt Bailey Harrison- TV Ceetlnsed from page A1 He said people go to bed East Indian dancers in performance tonight at UT An evening of Indian classical dances win be per- were passed mother to daughter Now young girls in formed at University of Music Hall be- India attend dancing schools to learn the traditional ginning at 8 pm tonight The Classical dances sponsored by the India Student Association date back to the second century BC They were traditionally performed in temples as prayers to deity and before royalty Eight dancers who will perform are from India and are touring college campuses around the United States They will wear traditional costumes and In- dian jewelry For many generations the movements Every one of regions has its own form of dance Two of them will be represented in performance 'i r- Those wanting more of the ancient Indian arts can attend a ritar concert at the University Cento1 at Spun Sunday Tickets for each performance are $3 for i and $6 toothers The station will continue its noon news and bulletins for breaking news It also will keep its five-minute news at 7:45 ajn and 8:45 ami with Ron Sprawl who also will work as the station's police reporter Bagwell arid the station also had been losing more than half its weekend local news time to the networks when national programs such as golf tournaments ran over in time Sources said the chief photographer Jerome Jamigan was among those let go and that at least one other photographer was involved In an unusual move the news director Jeff Runser had "gone before the 6 pm Friday newscast He could not be reached for comment Assistant News Director Kevin Moore said he had "nothing to say" 'e 1897 Print Cesttouet from pace Al 1297-1997 (elsewhere 18-32) Idle a LARGE knit tunic with DEEP plunge Sip It over a TNY stretch legglngankle length capri or short Bright Snug loose Fun That's what spring's al about And 25 V35 savings at Stein Marti (elsewhere 25) Any tlma Our XT Super Burton StovetopGriT" does It al Indoors Healthy norv greasy gring No smoke or nlnHnw fffc nrfHir-rrBS spanefi coating: dbhwasher safe Use on electric or gas stove Regular WStovetop Grif (elsewhere 24) 1497 Grifl 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