November 7, 2006 - 2:00am
By Mao Ye
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Trustee Viewpoint
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The purpose of this column is to discuss the possibility of setting up a teaching award of the students, by the students and for the students. I want to call this award “The Students’ List.” I’m promoting this award because I saw the need to recognize professors who perform well on course evaluations. This would be parallel to each college’s Dean’s List, which recognizes students with high GPAs. Cornell already has many awards, but the teaching award that I am suggesting will be a supplement to the current prizes. It is a prize of our own. In addition to this “Students’ List,” we can also begin to devise other prizes based on other criteria and expectations that are important for students.