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In many of your classes you are asked to fill out professor evaluation forms. The administration and your professors do in fact read them. Here are some selected quotes:
What components of the class or instructor were most beneficial to helping you learn teh course content/skills?
What suggestions do you have to improve the course or improve your learning of the course content/skills?
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One of my students put up a post for me at RateMyProfessors.com. I appreciate the good review.
I think the most telling part is this: "As long as you do the work, there is no reason for you not to pass." That is exactly what I tell students every semester, just get everything in the syllabus done and you'll be fine. I've gotten static in the past about whether my classes are too easy or not. A class can be easy for a couple reasons. One is to just make assignments and tests that lack rigor. I don't think mine are that way--students who don't study wipe out all the time. On the other hand, a course can be well organized and the material well explained. Perhaps a better word than "easy" would be "efficient." That's my goal, students can learn what they need to learn quickly and without undue stress.. Here's the link to my old SVSU profile as well. During my year end review with my boss's boss VP for Academic Affairs Amy Fugate, I learned about an opportunity that can benefit many Mott Community College Students. Many students leave community college to go to a four year university before completing their two year associate degree. The "back transfer" allows students who transfer to a four year university to transfer their students to MCC to be applied to an associate's degree.
Here's a common scenario. Suppose a student goes to MCC for two years but cannot get the last couple classes to graduate. The student transfers to a four year university and goes on to get a bachelors degree. What if the student took those last two classes for the associates degree as part of the university program? MCC allows the student to transfer those credits back and apply them to the two year degree. The student gets the AA degree doing something he or she was doing anyway. Everyone wins. The student gets another degree to list on a resume, which cannot hurt. MCC gets credit for another graduation, which increases the college's graduation rate which looks good for all kinds of reasons. And no one has to take another class or pay more tuition. I could not find any information about this on the MCC website. If someone with the power to do so reads this, I encourage them to list this opportunity on the main website. Also, it could not hurt to publicize the back transfer policy to both transferring students as well as our university partners. Here's the syllabus for the newest class, which begins today. It's a pure online version of Human Resource Management (MGMT 286).
Syllabus MGMT 286-WWW Summer 2018 |
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