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Teachers Tested
A new program that allows
students to evaluate the
performance of their teachers
has been developed by
Educational Testing Service
(ETS).
Besides allowing students a
chance to express their views
anonymously about courses and
teachers, it also gives instructors
an objective way to monitor
their own performance and
progress.
Called the Student
Instructional Report (SIR), the
program is an effort to improve
instruction based on responses
to an ETS-designed
questionnaire supplied to
students by the colleges
themselves.
The questionnaire was
developed by ETS researchers
with the aid of college faculty
members and students. It is
composed of questions about
specific teaching practices and
more general topics including
such queries as:
Did the instructor
encourage students to think for
themselves?
—Were the course objectives
made clear?
—How much effort did
students put into the course?
—Were students informed of
how they would be evaluated?
Seminar on Women
A credit seminar examining
the social roles of women will be
offered at Guilford College next
fall semester.
Titled "The Role of Women
in Society", it will be
coordinated by Vicki M. Curby,
Associate Dean of Students.
Several members of the Guilford
College faculty will serve as
lecturers and resource personnel
The seminar will be held
twice a week: tentatively from
3:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. Monday
and Thursday.
During the semester, the
seminar will view the changing
role of women in contemporary
society. Theories of behavior
and personality of women and
current questionings of these
theories will be examined. In
investigating women's images,
life styles, and participation in
major societal institutions, the
students will look at economic,
educational, legal, political, and
religious systems as well as the
institutions of marriage and the
family. The history of the
feminist movement and the
current women's liberation
movement's goals, methods, and
issues will also be discussed. This
seminar is intended as an
interdisciplinary survey and not
an in depth study into any area.
One part of the requirements
involves research or action
projects. For example, media
projects may include television,
women's magazines, ads :
children's literature and sexual
stereotyping. Other projects may
involve looking at female
experience in special areas
class, regional, ethnic groups;
viewing the function of norms
and "normalcy" in female life
and the meaning of "deviancy;"
a survey of local businesses to
The ETS questionnaire also
includes questions about a
student's reasons for taking the
course and the grade he expects
to receive. In addition, an
instructor is free to include
questions of his own to learn
more about factors unique to his
particular class. The
questionnaire results are
reported for each class as a
group, not for individual
students.
Student evaluation of
teachers is not a new concept.
The procedure has been used for
some time at various
institutions, but ETS says SIR
should provide an instructor
with information to compare his
performance with others in his
discipline on a national scale.
The program is available to
institutions throughout the
United States and Canada.
More information about SIR
may be obtained by contacting:
Institutional Research Program
for Higher Education,
Educational Testing Service,
Princeton, New Jersey 08540.
Initiated by ETS in 1965, the
Institutional Research Program
provides colleges and universities
with a variety of methods to use
in evaluation and self-study
programs.
determine the number and
percentages of women in
management positions; and
investigating the legal positions
of women in North Carolina and
other states.
Many women's studies
courses have been started in the
U.S. during the past six years.
Why "Women's Studies?" It has
been observed that higher
education in the United States
was designed almost exclusively
for the White, upper or
middle-class male. Its
procedures, its procedures, its
content, its uninterrupted
timetable, and its cost all but
prohibit its use by women
despite well-meaning, sometimes
desperate, twentieth-century
attempts to provide appropriate
schooling for every qualified
American citizen. According to
Lucille Kuehn, University of
California at Irvine, " Women's
Studies courses are a beginning
in the necessary reconstruction
process whose goal is an
examination of the totality of
the human experience male
and female, men and women of
all races and ethnic backgrounds,
of all economic groups and
classes. If successful, Women's
Studies will outlive its
usefulness, having accomplished
this goal and will no longer be
required after having restored
the necessary ingredient of
women into the study of
history, literature, anthropology,
psychology, sociology,
economics and the laws and
relationships which govern
society.
"lit the past women students
have been estranged from their
own experience and unable to
perceive its shape and
authenticity, in part because
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Serendipity Surprises
Serendipity Weekend,
Guilford's reception for parents
and alumni to be held April
28-30, plans entertainment for
all guests and residents of
Guilford.
True to the spirit of
serendipity, which is the art of
finding pleasure in the
unexpected, the weekend is
they do not see it mirrored in
their academic pursuits. The
masculine culture, reinforced by
the male author, and, usually, a
male professor, is so
all-encompassing that few
women students can sustain the
sense of a positive feminine
identity in the face of it. They
have been expected to identify
as students with a masculine
experience and perspective
which is presented as the human
one.
"In view of this academic
history, Women's Studies will
provide more than a
compensatory function, i.e. an
admission of inequality and the
need for remedial work. It will
have an impact of consciousness
raising and feminist cultural
restoration at the same time that
it serves to stimulate a new body
of comparative research which
leads to change in educational
process and content as well as
structure, methodology and
curricula. An additional goal is
the changing socialization of
women which influences their
career aspirations, choices and
opportunities to assist them in
reaching their fullest
professional potential."
Sue Cox of the University of
Cincinnati believes that
"Women's studies is concerned
with power struggles, political,
social, psychological and
economic independence for all
women. It is concerned, on the
one hand, with female power
the power of every woman to
control her own life.
Alternatively, it is concerned
with human liberation, because
as women change the entire
structure of society will also
change ..
being advertised by assorted
surprises.
Wednesday a fire truck
arrived on campus to hang a
huge Serendipity banner,
complete with a surprise
misspelling, between Founders
and Milner.
Surprise candy has been
sprinkled around liberally. The
surprise joints under the doors
of Milner one morning, although
not a part of Serendipity
promotion, certainly did not
detract from the spirit of
pleasurable surprise.
Serendipity festivities begin
Friday, April 28,. with a buffet
dinner in the dining hall,
followed by a concert by Josh
White, Jr., at 8 P.M. in Dana.
After the concert, the College
Union will honor White by
presenting him with a lifetime
membership in the Guilford
College Union. The concert will
cost $1.50 per guest and $.50
per student. The buffet dinner is
$1.50 per guest.
Saturday's activities begin at
9 a.m. with a Continental
breakfast for guests at the
president's home followed by a
discussion in Dana involving
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students, parents, and alumni.
A carnival, with twenty
booths, including cotton candy,
snow cones, and ticket booths,
plus hay rides, will run Saturday
from 11:30 to 4:30.
A luncheon for parents and
alumni will begin at 12 noon. In
the afternoon, an arts, crafts and
music festival with displays of
student's talents will be held in
front of Founders and Cox.
The Guilford 500,
faculty-student bike relays, will
take place at the track at 3 p.m.
An Italian dinner will be served
in the dining hall, with a charge
of $2.00 per guest. The baseball
game starts at 8 in the
Greensboro Stadium with a
$ 1.00 admission charge.
The film Good-bye Columbus
will be shown free of charge
Saturday night at 11:30 in Dana.
A breakfast will follow the film
at 1:15 a.m. in the dining hall.
A contemporary worship
service will be held in Dana,
Sunday at 11 a.m.
The Bluegrass Experience will
present an outdoor concert
Sunday afternoon on the lawn
between Milner and '6B dorms at
2 p.m.