June 16, 2000

Santa Cruz Faculty Delays Vote on Plan to End Narrative Evaluations

By ALISON SCHNEIDER

The narrative-evaluation system at the University of California at Santa Cruz got an unexpected reprieve last month, when student protesters barricaded the entrance to a Faculty Senate meeting, preventing professors from voting on whether to retain some version of the system or scrap it entirely.

For the past year, professors at Santa Cruz have been engaged in a heated debate about the fate of narrative evaluations, which require a professor to summarize a

Print Subscription

Digital Subscription

Already have an account? Log In Now.