Teacher evaluations may receive update

Teacher evaluations will receive an update if Faculty Senate agrees with Student Government Vice President Ali Eltatawy. He spoke Tuesday, Sept. 30 about using a system akin to the popular Rate My Professor website for student evaluations of teachers.

“Many students use things like Rate My Professor to help schedule their classes,” Eltatawy said. “We could work to achieve a similar approach to evaluations.”

Eltatawy also said having faculty members take ALICE training – that’s Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate – will prepare them for campus security emergencies.

He also said SG wants to work towards using audio and video to make lectures accessible to those with disabilities, as well as allow credits for “co-op” learning for all colleges.

Later in the meeting, clinical social worker and UT counselor Angela Daigneault presented on the Sexual Assault Education and Prevention Program, and the program’s response to White House initiatives.

Daigneault’s presentation highlighted initiatives which included “Haven training,” an advocacy training which will be open to faculty members starting in October.

“The training goes through the YWCA Hope center,” Daigneault said, “whom we’ve worked with before.”

She also said the program now has four advocates, rather than one, to better help survivors.

“We do educational awareness through trainings and presentations, … through different sponsored events … and we do survivor support through advocacy,” Daigneault said.