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America’s favorite professor is taking a disappointing report card back to his tepee.
Ward “I really am an Indian” Churchill, who teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder, received a disturbing message from students concerning his performance during the spring 2005 semester. According to student evaluations made available to the public, Professor Churchill’s most recent grades are anything but great. Churchill received lower marks in each of the three classes he taught last spring compared to the grades he earned for those same classes in previous semesters.
The university asks its students to rate professors in a variety of categories. These evaluations are used by the student body for selecting courses and instructors, by professors so they can improve on their teaching and by deans and department chairs for promotion, tenure, salary and course-assignment decisions.
In Churchill’s "Topical Issues in Native North America" class students were asked to “rate this course compared to all your other university courses.” Churchill received a “C” compared to the “A” he earned for that class during the fall 2004 semester. Students were then asked to “rate this instructor compared to all your other university instructors.” Churchill received another “C” compared to the “A” he got in the fall. When it came to the “fairness of his grading policies,” again Churchill’s grade dropped from an “A” to a “C.” The professor’s most notable grade drop came when students were asked to, “rate the accessibility of the instructor.” Churchill received a “D+” for the spring semester. That’s down from the “B+” he earned during the fall.
The next two categories reveal a less dramatic drop in score, but pose a somewhat ironic situation considering that “Chief Churchill” is still listed as the chairman of Ethnic Studies in the university’s department phone directory.
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=8431
for his students’ sake, Professor Churchill should resign and let another instructor who is less distracted take his position.
Very disappointing, but not surprising. Thomas Klocek affair clearly showed that DePaul is deeply in PC Swamp.
Ward Churchill is going to the right place -:))))
Glad I'm no longer part of this institution. Although I quit DePaul for different reason (couldn't balance work and school), the way they handled the Klocek affair played the role in my decition not to return to this school. I'll get my Masters from somewhere else -:)))