A&M to base bonuses on student input
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The chancellor of the Texas A&M University System wants to give bonuses worth up to $10,000 to some instructors, but so far, many aren't interested.
"I've never had so much trouble giving away a million dollars," Chancellor Mike McKinney said, laughing.
The voluntary pilot program being done at Texas A&M University along with the campuses in Prairie View and Kingsville will award bonuses from $2,500 to $10,000 to instructors based on end-of-the-semester critiques by students. The first awards go out in February, the Bryan-College Station Eagle reported in its online editions on Sunday.
But faculty members have voiced concern about the program's fairness, worried that it relies on a single evaluation method and could become a popularity contest that wouldn't serve students. Many instructors haven't signed up to participate; the faculty senate passed a resolution opposing the program.
Isn't this a little like the enlisted men selecting officers, or voting a girl off the island because she has little boobs, or determining nutrition by taste?
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Yeah, it would be like the enlisted men selecting officers. But hey, if it's a chance for a bonus you wouldn't normally get, why not go for it. But then I'd get voted off the island for having little boobs.
Boobs aren't everything!!!
STEVE!!!
Stifle yourself!
Now - I need something for dinner that's good for me. I'm leaning towards ice cream, Oreos, cheese cake, and a bacon sandwich for desert.
This chucklehead has trouble giving away a million dollars? I can solve his problem real easy: Give it to me! Seriously, in this time of economic belt-tightening, tuition raises, and people losing their jobs, why should highly paid professors be entitled to a bonus? The SHTF where I live when the school superintendent got a $20K bonus, on top of his $130K salary, for a review of his work, that HE wrote! Meanwhile, the local CC president turned down a $100K raise, and put the money into a fund to buy textbooks for college students who couldn't afford them. THAT'S where that million should be going.
Anon,
well it's true. Picture some nice hooties, ROLLING down the street, alone. Unless they are physically associated with some shapely legs and a nice butt, nearly useless.
There is a method to my madness.
Steve -
Why am I suddenly reminded of Marie Antoinette and the 'perfect' shape of champagne glasses?
Form follows function, Jimbo.
And I think the profs don't want to get involved, so they don't get critiqued.
C-Bug,
choosing your own officers is a good idea. If you have a parrot and an eye patch. ARRRGHH! Ahoy Matey!!!
I think they are all worried that they'll all be found out to be mediocre.
Jeez Bill, you're up early this morning.
UMMMMM! ice cream, Oreos, cheese cake, and a bacon sandwich for desert. YUMMMM!
I'm always up early. Me and srk and the wife and kids. Have to clean Lemmiwinks cage feed and water, and we're off to work, East Coast time.
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