MEMO: Spring 2009 Evaluations of Professors/Courses
Dear Journalism Students,
The evaluation system (https://courseworks.columbia.edu/) for students to provide feedback about their classes will be live for the Spring 2009 semester on Friday, May 1, 2009. PT January RWI, MA Seminar in Discipline, and MS Workshop and Seminar professors will be scheduling lab time for you to complete these. If you are not enrolled in any of these courses, please complete all your evaluations on your own. The deadline for completion is Monday, May 25 , 2009, at 9 p.m.
Your role in providing feedback via course evaluations is of vital importance to the Journalism School. The information is used by faculty to evaluate their syllabi and to refine their practices and by the administration to make curriculum decisions and assess professor performance.
Course evaluations are one element in tenure, promotion and contract decisions; they can affect professors’ careers at Columbia.
Future students also use the information to make informed balloting choices.
We ask that you take your time and seriously reflect on your learning experience as you provide an honest answer to each question. You do not have to complete all the forms in one sitting. However, once you begin working on the form for a given class you must complete and submit it before exiting the system. Partially completed forms are not stored.
Please be aware that professors won’t have access to your evaluations of them until after they have submitted their evaluations of your performance.
Please note, we have no control over the system once the deadline has passed. Every semester students contact us after the deadline asking to fill in the form or to make edits to their evaluations, and there is nothing we can about those situations. Please be certain to complete all evaluations by the, Monday, May 25, 9 p.m. deadline.
Between Friday, May 1 and Monday, May 25, you will receive reminders every day for each evaluation that you have yet to complete. These automatic reminders are generated by the CourseWorks system.
Thank you for your assistance.
Questions to dos@jrn.columbia.edu
