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...won’t know,” Stock said. “Secretary [of the Faculty Noel] Bisson knows, but she won’t tell you unless you ask her.” Before beginning the discussion of the proposal, Professor of German Peter J. Burgard elected to take the initiative. “The obvious question is, do we have a quorum?” Burgard asked, setting in motion a brief flurry of activity at the front of the Faculty Room, where Bisson, smiling, rose to tear a sheet of paper off of her small yellow...
German professor Peter J. Burgard said that the quorum is too low already, and that lowering it further might encourage even worse attendance at meetings...
German Professor Peter J. Burgard rose to read the sentiments of Physics Professor Eric Mazur (“mandatory Q evaluation is just going to serve as another excuse to postpone doing anything of substance and further cement our current approach to teaching”). Burgard said that he believed the Q is an unreliable metric of teacher performance...
Among the issues Burgard said remained to be addressed were inconsistencies between the current online evaluations and previous paper reviews, as well as the effect that students’ performance in a course has on their assessment of its quality...
Recalling one of his objections from a May 2006 meeting, when he also joined Burgard in denouncing the proposed modifications, Mansfield added that he thought the evaluations “subjected the wise to the judgment and scrutiny of the unwise...