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University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository 1982 The aiD ly Lobo 1981 - 1985 11-29-1982 New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 087, No 69, 11/ 29/1982 University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1982 Recommended Citation University of New Mexico. "New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 087, No 69, 11/29/1982." 87, 69 (1982). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1982/151 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The aiD ly Lobo 1981 - 1985 at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1982 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ~V<! 1rrl-.S 3 1~1?r~ NEW MEXICO UrJ 6 Qu.> "'VO.t.> ~-~ ~-~__ a_i~L~d -~ Vol. 87 No. 69 Monday, November 29, 1982 Course evaluations to be administered By Wrenn Propp ments only untenured faculty re ceive ICES. We do recommend its Students in half the academic de use because it provides valuable partments of UNM grade their feedback for the improvement of teachers every fall and spring when teaching," Garcia said. the Instructor and Course Evaluation The College of Arts and Sciences System (ICES) is administered. also uses peer evaluations to judge study faculty perfonnance, Garcia The use of this system differs said that to a greater or lesser extent, from college to college. Also, the student evaluations are used in the purpose of the evaluations within college's office in faculty considera these colleges and schools varies. tions. Assistant Director of the Testing Di vision in University College, Kurt College of Fine Arts Dean Donald Minnick, said many of the colleges McRae said the evaluations are one do not use ICES at all, opting for a of a four-part faculty performance teacher and course evaluation fonn tab1e submitted to personnel com written within the college. mittees for promotion, tenure and salary increase considerations. Re Minnick said of the 43 percent of search and creative work, service to faculty and teacher assistants using their department and college, and ICES, only the College of Fine Arts, persona] character are the three other Joe Cavaretta School of Pharmacy and School of areas used for consideration. McRae THOUSANDS of city "'sidents br•ved freezing weather conditions Saturday morning to Physical Therapy use ICES for the said though :t would be difficult to enjoy the 36th Annual Downtown Christmas P•r•de. entire evaluation process. say what weight each area has, con sistently low student evaluations The original copies of the evalua play an important role in defining tion are given to the instructor and a overall faculty perfonnancc. computer print~out of the results go the Provost's office and to dean of Associate Provost Joel Jones said New parking lot to be opened the college. He said the fonns are the office of the Provost uses a com~ given twice yearly to all instructors putor printout of the results for each for all courses within these colleges. instructor for some insight when for UNM students this spring making recommendations for prom ICES and other evaluation sys otion or tenure. tems administered at UNM are put to By Stephanie Dominguez Campus police Chief Berry Cox, tion received by the bus service. various uses within each college. ..At UNM we use a system for director of parking services, said all "We need to know its peak times Dean of Arts and Sciences Chris promotion called Code Three. At the An additional 489 free parking paid parking on North Campus was of use," Cox said. "It's possible we Garcia said ICES is used in all but third year of a non-tenured teacher's spaces east of the new Childcare Co sold out this school year. will have to re-petition the central three of the college's departments. time with us, a decision is made on op building on North Canipus will Johnson said the the new parking administration for another bus.'' He Garcia said Biology, Mathematics promotion or termination. It's up or be available to UNM students in the lot will be convenient for students said the proposal was for a 24 to 30 and Philosophy use evaluations de out. This means that student evalua spring semester, said Ned Ross, who will utilize the services of the passenger mini-bus equipped with a veloped within the departments or tion will play a key role in this deci assistant director of the university Childcare Co-op. wheel•chair lift. by another outside source. Due to sion if peer evaluations do not seem physical plant. "It's a great situation for pa Cox also proposed that a shuttle the decentralized nature of Arts and to be thorough," Jones said. Marvin "Swede'' Johnson, admi rents," Johnson said. "They can bus be used within the main campus. Sciences, Garcia said, his office nistrative vice pn=sident of student park there, take their children to the This could reduce the number of uni only recommends some form of eva Professor of Education, Sven affairs, alumni relations and de Co-op, then take the shuttle bus to versity fleet cars now used by va luation on teaching and courses. Winther said professors in the Col: velopment, said the parking lot, cur school." rious university departments for on More emphasis is placed on peer lege of Education may decide if eva rently under construction, is needed Cox said $34,000 of the $54,000 campus travel, he said. evaluations. luations will be administered in their because of an increase in student appropriated for construction of the •• A Jot of vehicles that have been courses or not. Winther said population. new parking lot will go toward ex a.41Signed permanently to certain de "We have 20 departments and a teachers may use their set of scales An increase of about 2,000 stu tending the current shuttle-bus route partments, sit there and take up a Jot huge variable to how the ICES sys and own course evaluation forms. dents attending UNM this semester, to go behind Carrie Tingley Hospit of space,., he said. "If we had these tem is put to use. Sometimes it is However, the evaluations are used has made it difficult for the universi al, KNME television station and the cars off the streets, we could sell administered to all faculty members within the college for tenure and ty population to find parking in the Co-op. more permits." within a department. In other depart- promotion decision, Winther said. six free Jots already available on Although a proposal for an addi "By and large, the university north campus. Johnson said the tional shuttle bus was tabled by uni administration is very good about parking problem worsens on Mon versity administration, Cox said that considering proposals of this type days, Wednesdays and Fridays a study is currently underway to de and reconsidering them at the Rivera to serve when more students attend classes. termine the actual amount of utiliza- appropriate time," he said. on task force Library's computer reads to the blind Jose Rivera, Chicano Studies and architecture and planning instructor, and director of the Southwest Hispa By Julie Matteucci trained personnel," Rollins said. 230 type faces or print. A user places nic Research Institute, was invited After they are trained, they receive a the material to be read (sheets of recently to serve on a task force Zimmerman Library has many certificate card and this enables paper, books or magazines) on a sur funded by the Ford Fomi'dation. services for the. handicapped, but them to reserve the room, he said. face scanner and the machine reads The task force would define re one of its prized possessions i~ a Zimmerman Library's KRM was the material aloud line by line. It search priorities and direct and machine that reads to the blind. the first one purchased in Albuquer~ can, by the user's key commands, shape the work of the organization in "We have a number of specia1 que. UNM bought it in August of repeat the previous lines or words, order to submit a written product to equipment for people to use that 1981 and it cost $24,800. However, spell out words, and announce punc~ the foundation. have visual or hearing handicaps, the money was not from UNM tuation and capitalizations. The task force, the Hispanic Re~ but the Kurzweil Reading Machine funds. Instead, the money was The machine is capable of reading search Secretariat on Social Services is the crown jewel," said Stephen raised by the Albuquerque North· 250 words per minute, and the aver and Community Development and Rollins, circulation librarian. west Lyons Club, the UNM Founda~ age person listens at about 250 administered by the National Coun~ · . The. Kurzweil Reading Machine tion, T~e University Affirmative words per .minute. cil of La Jtaza, is one of five secre· (KRM) is a desk top computer with Action Program and a gtant from the The KRM also serves as a talking lariats funded by the Ford Founda In today's Lobo · 33 key functions that use synthetic Levi Strauss Foundation. calculator. A change of the program · tion. The other task forces are spet>.ch to read printed materials in The KRM is available for public enables it_ to perform and announce education, employment, civil parti~ Basketball season opens English. The company who manu use too. "We've trained 12 people computations and complex func· cipation and demographic data for the Lobos: SEE STORY factures the KRM is now adding a to use it but only two are UNM stu tions.