tl19681213-000 "Exam Schedule reprinted . . pg. 5 Vol. XXI, No. 11 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE � BALTIMORE. MARYLAND 21204 Course evaluations 'bogged down;' results not due until February by TED OSTERLOH Towson students who are wait-to receive the results, that Were promised for Spring pre-reg-istration, of the SGA's course eval-uations will now have to wait until Pebruary. Begun last spring The project, inaugurated last Spring, when students were asked to fill out forms evaluating their second semester courses and in-structors, is under the direction of Wayne Miskelly, who stated that the results should have been out this month but that the pro- 05 became bogged down. Miskelly Cited problems in sorting out the forms and a lack of student help-ers as two main roadblocks. To date, the forms have been Sorted according to departments and are waiting to be keypunched and fed into TSC's computer. Dr. Cortelyou, a chemistry professor at Towson who also works with computer programming, is draw-ing up the program for processing the evaluations. IQ% participation Before they are distributed to the student body, the results will be given to the faculty head of each department in order to in-form them of the findings and to collect their comments. Miskelly noted that if some faculty comments are adverse, the findings will still be published, unaltered. Approximately 2000 forms were handed out last Spring�only about 10% participation, considering that Towson had close to 4000 students and each person could have filled out 5 or 6 forms. Some results meaningless This is a source of pessimism for Miskelly because he feels that some departments have so few re-turns that the results will be mean-ingless. ""The ideal situation is to evaluate each course and instructor Trustees request $35 million for next fiscal budgeting on Wednesday, December 4, rep-resentatives from Towson State attended a hearing of the Bureau of Budget in Annapolis. Under ""nsideration were requests for over $35 million in funds for the oper-ation of the state colleges. 1-Snow job The following procedure for in-clement weather has been posted for reference by the TSC corn-inunity. Persons are reminded not to call the TSC switchboard for information but to follow the di-rections below. After the college has obtained in formation which it believes is reason to close the school, snow 81gn5 cancelling classes will be Posted throughout the campus. The sligns will designate what time Classes win be closed. Department offices will be no-tified by telephone from the ad-ininistrative offices and will like- Wise Post signs. vening school decisions in the event of inclement weather will be released at 4 p.m. and broad-casted before the opening of school that evening. At the present time, the colleges are operating under a budget of $25 million. The $10 million in-crease is seen as a result of pro-posed increases in the salary scales. Edmund C. Mester, executive director of the Board of Trustees, listed four priorities established by the Board of Trustees of the state colleges for the upcoming budget's funds: faculty salaries, additional faculty, adequate main-tenance funds, and state support for graduate programs. Towson President Earle T. Hawkins, noted that at the present time, the amount of money gotten from taxes will not adequately cover the increases in the budget requests from the colleges. He also observed that the Trus-tees did no cutting on the Towson budget themselves but forwarded it to the Bureau of the Budget intact. TSC's own requests are $3 million over last year's budget. Dr. Hawkins observed that high-er education is high in the prior-ities of the Maryland gubernatorial candidates but that all state agen-cies have submitted requests for increased amounts�sometimes rep-resenting as much as a 50% jump. It is not known at the present time to what extent requests from the state colleges will be cut, but not enough people participated for us to do that. and courses, we will be able to do ""Probably, for some instructors this but, in certain departments, we will not be able to go into any more depth than rating the depart-ment. It would be bad to publish a course evaluation with insufncient information because the ratings might be inaccurate"". Form revision seen Miskelly noted that, despite the results, he had learned some im-provement for future evaluations. The present form asks the students to write the course number, the section, and the instructor that he is evaluating. However, many peo-ple did not fill this out correctly, thus making their evaluation use-less. A coding system for this in-formation, Miskelly feels, would solve the problem. He also feels that the evaluation questions should be revised. ""At this time, there is no way that a person can make an indi-vidual comment about his courses or his instructors. We'll have that in the future. For the futur� Miskell wants to examine the ethods u ed by other schools havi\ng evaluations. Another evaluation, for the Fall semester, is scheduled to begin this January, along with a push for a much bigger response. By then, a pattern should be established so that evaluations of the Fall sem-ester will be published before pre-registration for Fall semester of the following year�the same hold-ing true for the Spring semester. December 13, 1968 RICHMOND HALL Richmond to be remodeled 125 to lose residence Photo by OuRnte Richmond Hall will be complete-ly renovated and put out of use for two semesters if Towson is awarded the requested money from the Capital Improvement Budget. Except for the addition of a few rooms over the parlor, Richmond has remained untouched for the past 45 years. Dorm renovation proposed by STEPHANIE PANOS Currently there are three men's residence halls on the Towson cam-pus� Richmond, Ward, and West Halls. However, if Towson is awarded the requested money from the Capital Improvement Budget, Richmond Hall will be completely renovated, thereby putting it out of use for two semesters, beginning in the fall of 1969. Never remodeled Richmond was built in 1924, orig-inally a woman's hall. Since then, except for the addition of a few rooms over the Parlor, it has never been remodeled. For a number of years the State Fire Marshal has been urging that the building be renovated, pointing out that it is a ""dangerous fire trap"", and de-manding that another interior stair-way from the top floors be installed. No funds until July If the funds which are requested for the renovation are granted, they would not be available to the col-lege until July 1, 1969. As was stated earlier, this would cause Richmond to be unavailable as a residence hall for next year. In answer to the question of where the 125 Richmond men would go, Miss Mary Lee Farlow,Director of Residence, has commented: ""We have several possible solu-tions, but nothing definite yet. We could put the men who are cur-rently living in Richmond into Ward and West Halls. They would fit comfortably if we don't take in any new resident men next year. Or we could help them find off-campus housing. We are waiting for the recommendation of the Men's Residence Council. ""Whatever recommendation they make will carry considerable weight in the decision of the use of the limited space, I want to stress that there are no definite plans as yet. We are open to suggestions from all, especially the dorm students."" She also pointed out that ""not admitting any new resident men will hurt the male enrollment"" at Towson. Nothing definite According to Mr. Edward St. Lawrence, the director of Admis-sions, nothing definite has been decided yet, either, as to whether next fall's resident male enrollment will be dropped, or cut altogether."