Thank you all for your responses.
My intuition agreed with Nancy's thoughts.
All of the courses are of course cleared through the various
committees so there should be no real reason for such a request except
for some form of assessment.
I think the request comes from a department head without m
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From: Annette Taylor
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Sent: Mon, Jan 17, 2011 11:39 am
Subject: RE: [tips] Curious about department heads
Nancy and others:
Why would you not agree with the philosophy behind your SLOs. Isn't it your
purview to develo
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From: drnanjo [drna...@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 9:23 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Curious about department heads
Though I am a department head currenly, I can only speculate.
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dia Stanny [csta...@uwf.edu]
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 10:04 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Curious about department heads
I'm not a department chair, but I've had this discussion with a number of
department chairs around campus.
UWF is als
I'm not a department chair, but I've had this discussion with a number of
department chairs around campus.
UWF is also a unionized campus. The collective bargaining agreement does
provide for chair observation of classroom teaching with appropriate advance
notice. This applies to online classes
I would only expect that if your friend was a junior member and up for
review.
Carol
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
> I'm curious about what TIPsters think.
>
> A friend of mine received an email from his department head requesting
> that the department head have access
Though I am a department head currenly, I can only speculate.
I'd never ask to look at a faculty member's online course shell unless there
were some compelling cause.
And even with a compelling cause the union and contract tend to exert a lot of
restrictions on such activity. For example, noth
