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Online evaluations get a second chance

October 11, 2000

Representatives from ASMSU’s Academic Assembly dodged a procedural bullet to keep alive the possibility of putting SIRS - Student Instructional Ratings System - evaluation forms online.

At the Executive Committee of Academic Council meeting Tuesday, an item was placed on the agenda denoting a meeting of the Academic Senate, a group composed entirely of faculty members that supersedes Academic Council, to possibly vote on the SIRS proposal.

“(The vote for SIRS) wouldn’t have had student input and that is not good,” said Steve Lovelace, undergraduate diversity division and ECAC representative for academic assembly.

The group did not go in session, however, because Lovelace’s motion to cancel an Academic Senate meeting was approved. As a result, the SIRS proposal is still on the Academic Council’s Oct. 24 agenda.

To help garner support, Academic Assembly chairperson Charles McHugh and vice chairperson for external affairs Kurt Lausman will make a presentation to the Academic Council to promote approval of the SIRS project.

“We’re just going to present our argument,” McHugh said.

A Sept. 26 vote by the Academic Council to table the SIRS bill until Oct. 24 prompted McHugh to lead a student representative walkout.

The plan to allow students to access the SIRS evaluation forms through the Internet has been in the works since November 1997, when ASMSU brought a proposal to the University Committee on Academic Policy. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.

Also discussed during the ECAC meeting and placed on the Academic Council agenda was an amendment to the Interim Student Conduct Policy.

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