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Show Committee Sets Channels For Student Complaints "Anyone wishing to do so can call Dean Frobes office and arrange to get on the agenda of the committee commit-tee meeting," he said. "Too many students wait until it is too late to take any action to correct a problem. If a problem arises, the student should try to correct it immediately rather than waiting until a week before finals." fin-als." Warranted Complaints Smith added that complaints-shouldn't complaints-shouldn't just be made because of a bad relationship with the professor. pro-fessor. If a student is having trouble understanding material presented in a class and the professor pro-fessor doesn't help the student satisfactorily in class or in private pri-vate consultation, the student should make the committee aware of the problem, he said. The committee also concerns itself it-self with senior-exit opinions,: Smith said. Beginning next year,; senior students will be able to express ex-press their opinions on a form that i will be sent to them. The form1 will ask for a critique of their department, de-partment, the University in general, gener-al, and they will be able to vote for their choice for the Distinguishedl Professor Award, Smith said. ; "The results of these critiques; will be published annually by the! committee and made available to all interested," he said. Most of the students at the University Uni-versity don't realize 'that there is a committee on campus that will hear complaints about faculty-student relationships, according to Doug Smith, chaiman of the Faculty-Student Relations Committee. "If a student feels that a professor pro-fessor has committed an injustice towards him, infringed upon his academic freedom or given him a wrong grade, the student should present his case to the Faculty-Student Faculty-Student Relations Committee," he said. Smith said the committee is composed of four faculty representatives repre-sentatives and four students that meet each Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in 302 Park Bldg. 'Well Qualified' According to Smith, "The faculty fac-ulty members and the students on the committee are well qualified and carefully chosen to represent the interests of the faculty and the students." It seems like students are al-ways al-ways complaining about their professors, pro-fessors, Smith said, but nothing seems to be done about it because the students don't register their complaints with the committee. |
