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Show AT A GLANCE EDITORIAL FEATURES SPORTS CLASSIFIEDS TUESDAY, JUNE 15,2010 VOL 81 ISSUE 3 WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY 2 3 4 6 8 WWW.WSUSIGNP0ST.COM Teacher evaluations go online Business school runs T,me\ine of effort to ^ e v a l u a t i o n s mote available to students for online evaluations Q2004 O2005 # Fall 2006 By Elene Kvernadze Asst. News Editor I The Signpost A debate has been brewing: Should teacher evaluations be online? While teacher evaluations are currently only used as a critique tool by deans and department chairs, they have long been considered a simple way for students to acquire background information before making course selections. Chris Bentley, a Weber State University graduate and former legislative vice president, is one of the individuals most concerned. "I'm sure that every college student has that one class where things simply don't click," Bentley said. "Either the teacher's teaching style doesn't lend itself to the kind of learning we hoped in a college experience or the course was structured in such a way that some students simply fall under the radar." Justin Neville, the current legislative vice president, also said it is important to have evaluations from the university level, rather than relying on sites like Tatemyprofessor.com, in tions online Q2OO7 Q2OO8 • Fall 2009 post results onh O 2008 * Fall 2009 Q2010 b u s m ess senator Q2009 online. # Fall 201' O2011 O2012 See Evaluations page 5 Semester schedule changing i; (3.- . V PHOTOS BY CAHA2ALEH JAZI | THE SIGNPOST again/ Sheperd Union gallery showcases Weber State University photography students' final projects. Above: work by Nino Kvernadze. By David Duarte News reporter I The Signpost Exhibition portrays student talent By Thomas Alberts sr. news reporter I The Signpost Photography by WSU student Lusi Akebrand. "A lot of guys didn't want to participate in this project and didn't want me to take pictures of them," said Nino Kvernadze, a senior majoring in business administration at Weber State University. "So I only have two guys and the rest of them are all girls. I asked very goodlooking girls and they all wanted to change the exact same things. They wanted to change their stomachs and they wanted bigger breasts, and that was all of them. If you go look at the*pictures all the girls have the same marks on their bodies." Kvernadze's project was one of those selected by Professor Joshua Winegar from his photography seminar class to be put in an exhibition in the Shepherd Union Building's art gallery at WSU. "The title is Never Good Enough," Kvernadze said. "What ^did was ask a bunch of people what they didn't like about themselves and I marked them with a marker. And so many people who don't have anything wrong with them still didn't like themselves." This class assignment was different from others in the class in that students were allowed to come up with their own ideas for their work without being assigned any kind of requirements by the professor. The exhibition is part of an ongoing event that takes place every year, in which artwork from a chosen class is presented in the gallery during summer. "Usually in the summer we just do one show and it's up a little longer/' said Nikki Nicholas, the Student Involvement leadership operator at WSU. "Every year I talk to some of the professors to see what kind of final projects are going on in concert." Nicholas was in charge of the SUB's gallery and chose Professor Winegar's class to put the exhibition together with the students' projects. "It's basically the projects that the students had all semester to build on one kind of idea and concept," Nicholas said. See Exhibition page 5 The university now runs on what could be considered a trimester schedule, with 14-week sessions for fall, spring and summer semesters. With the end of the semester here, the change seems to be working, but there are still ideas among faculty and staff on what could be improved. "There are almost as many schedule ideas as there are people on this campus right now," said Colleen Garside, associate professor of communication at WSU and incoming vice chair of the faculty senate. "The one thing that I would like to see is to have it even across the board so that seat time would be the same all three semesters." Some of the further changes range from a minor swapping of days to large time shifts to the everyday class schedule. The graduation ceremony could be held on a Saturday instead of Friday, and class time could be extended from 50 to 60 minutes. All changes are being considered as ways to gain back some of tne lost hours for instruction from having fewer weeks. • See 5chedule*page 5 |
