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     ' November 22, 1984 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Netted Gem 
     
    
   
   
    
     UQAM professorturfed after students evaluate him 
     
    
   
   
    
     MONTREAL (CUP), — 
     
     A communications professor 
     
     at L’Universit Du Quebec A 
     
     Montreal was fied by the 
     
     university two weeks ago, 
     
     after he drew repeated nega- 
     
     tive results in teaching evalu- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Cutbacks A 
     
     fact or fiction 
     
    
   
   
    
     LENNOXVILLE (CUP) 
     
     — Students should be writ- 
     
     ing instruction manuals for 
     
     robot assembly and not a 
     
     contemporary “Tale of Two 
     
     Cities,” Bishop’s Univer— 
     
     sity’s English department has 
     
     decided. 
     
    

    
     The department, faced 
     
     with a cutback in funding for 
     
     part-time teachers, has but 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ ations by his students. \ 
     
    

    
     The professor was' the 
     
     first in Canada to lose his 
     
     job as a result of student 
     
     evaluations. 
     
    

    
     The decision to fire the 
     
     professor came in a majority 
     
    
   
   
    
     its creative writing courses, ' ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     and will channel the money 
     
     into an additional section of 
     
     “effective writing” next 
     
     semester. 
     
    

    
     One English professor, 
     
     angered at the departmental 
     
     decision, said the emphasis 
     
     of Bishop’s English depart- 
     
     ment has traditionally been 
     
     academic rather than pro- 
     
     fessional. 
     
    

    
     “We think of ourselves as 
     
    
   
   
    
     an English literature ‘de’part-‘ ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     ment,” the professor, who 
     
     wished to remain unidenti- 
     
     fied, said. “(But) there are 
     
     a limited number of things 
     
     we can do.” 
     
    

    
     The department’s division- 
     
     al ‘chair said there was a 
     
     greater need for effective 
     
     writing and with the recent 
     
     cutbacks “the highest prior- 
     
     ity must go to the great- 
     
     est need.” 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     vote from the departmental 
     
     assembly, comprised of tea- 
     
     chers, students and adminis- 
     
     traters. The decision came 
     
     after an evaluation showed 
     
    
   
   
    
     five out of every six stud- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ents saw him as a “bad pro- 
     
    
   
   
    
     fessor”. 
     
    

    
     UQAM is the only univer- 
     
     sity in Montreal which auto- 
     
     matically includes student 
     
     evaluation in the files of 
     
     professors. This evaluation 
     
     is taken into account during 
     
    
   
   
    
     \ 
     
    
   
   
    
     nominations and promotions 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ of professors. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The evaluations can also 
     
     have positive results. A visit- 
     
     ing professor in the same de- 
     
     partment, after Overwhelm- 
     
     ingly positive evaluations by 
     
    
   
   
    
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     his students, was kept on, 
     
     and is currently still teach— 
     
     ing in the department. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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