In an email received today:
Good afternoon.
"The Key" is maintained by the Office of Institutional Research.
http://www.uga.edu/irp/the_key/
The format of this site has recently been revised. The following note will be placed on that site to explain this change:
"Please note that information on this site has been reformatted so that grade distribution is now provided by course rather than by instructor. This change follows extensive discussions that have taken place over the past year on ways to promote a climate of academic excellence at the University of Georgia. The revised format is intended to encourage students to choose courses that will best fit their educational goals. While information is still provided
about the relative difficulty of particular courses, the revised format is intended to discourage students from choosing a particular course instructor based on grade distribution in his/her classes. Students are additionally urged to review course descriptions and syllabi in the UGA Bulletin
http://bulletin.uga.edu/bulletin/courses/index.html
Please contact me if you have questions. Thanks, Bob Boehmer
END EMAIL
This was confirmed in a phone conversation with Bob Boehmer, Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness. In short, grades on The Key will soon solely be listed by Course, not by Instructor. Mr. Boehmer assumed ultimate responsibility for the decision.
Also concerning the email, the last section mentioned "[reviewing] course descriptions and syllabi in the UGA Bulletin." I personally would love to see all my course syllabi online, but the majority of my classes did not have online syllabi last semester.
More coming soon.
Here are some articles from the Red & Black archives about The Key:
Brief History of the Key
UGA Today provides searchable Key – 2002 – no longer applies, unfortunately
SGA proposes an enhanced Key – 2002 – not sure what happened but I’ve never seen it in 2 years here
Anyway, just FYI.
Comment by Noah — March 29, 2006 @ 10:39 pm |
FYI the information used in “The Key” can be obtained under Georgia’s Open Records law by any member of the public and in electronic form if desired.
With a population of more than 33,000 students, surely one of them can convert the info into a searchable database as did Frank Harris when working for The Red and Black.
Comment by FYI — March 30, 2006 @ 2:11 pm |
[...] three years ago, University of Georgia administrators decided that The Key (a long provided service to students) would no longer contain professor names, limiting its [...]
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