SENATE / PROVOST

Joint Faculty Senate/Provost Committee to Assess the Evaluation of Teaching

Over the past few decades the University of Pennsylvania has steadily heightened the level of scrutiny of undergraduate and graduate teaching by our faculty. However, many of the mechanisms that are used to generate data for use in such assessments have not been developed cohesively. As these systems have been woven through the fabric of official University procedures for evaluating faculty performance, it is appropriate that we undertake a review of current teaching evaluation mechanisms with the goal of identifying the most appropriate means for each school to undertake this important responsibility. While it seems impossible to seek, or achieve, a single evaluation system for all schools and programs, there should be minimum standards of fairness and quality that protect all of our faculty and further the education of all of our students.

--Larry Gross, Faculty Senate Chair  --Robert Barchi, Provost 

Committee members:

  • David Pope, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, co-chair
  • Peter Conn, Deputy Provost and Andrea Mitchell Professor of English, co-chair
  • Jacob Cytryn, College '04
  • Greg Dubrow, Graduate Student, GSE
  • Anita Gelburd, Assistant to the Deputy Provost, ex officio
  • Larry Gladney, Associate Professor of Physics
  • Robert Hornik, Professor of Communication, Annenberg School
  • Arlene Houldin, Associate Professor of Nursing, Nursing School
  • David Ludden, Professor of History
  • Paul McDermott, Professor and Chair, Psychology in Education Division, GSE
  • Philip Nichols, Associate Professor, Legal Studies
  • Judy Shea, Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine, Medical School
  • Amy Simmerman, College, '02
  • Ingrid Waldron, Professor and Undergraduate Chair, Biology


Almanac, Vol. 47, No. 27, March 27, 2001

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