5. General Instructional Procedures
All new tenure-track faculty members, all temporary lecturers, and all adjunct faculty must participate in student evaluations in all sections of the courses they teach every semester. All tenured faculty members are expected to participate in student evaluations in all sections of the courses they teach during the fall of every third calendar year. Tenured faculty may choose to have students evaluate some or all of their courses each semester if they wish. All faculty members are encouraged to participate in the student evaluations voluntarily at least one semester each year.
For events which require students to miss class as a result of their participation in a School of Music activity, the Office of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs can provide Student Participation Letters to validate the reason for a student’s absence from class. These letters may be given by students to professors to verify that the student will miss class due to their participation in an approved School of Music activity. These letters do not excuse a student’s absence from class; that decision remains with the professor. School of Music attendance policy states that any University-related activity necessitating an absence from class will count as an absence when determining whether a student has attended the required 75% of class meetings.
- Student participation letters cannot be issued for masterclasses which occur Monday-Friday prior to 3:30 p.m.
- To obtain a letter for your event, please submit the dates, times, event names, and the course number(s) from which all students are participating (or a list of participating students) to the Undergraduate Academic Programs Manager at least two weeks prior to the event.
- When Student Participation Letters are completed, a scanned, signed copy for each event will be emailed to School of Music Faculty. Faculty sponsors should make the letter available to participating students so that they may share them with their non-music faculty instructors.