Resolution approved for advisor form
The Associated Students of Utah State University approved a resolution to create a new academic advising evaluation form for students Tuesday night.
Kristen Stokes, Family Life senator, said the new adviser evaluation form will be made available online to students starting Fall 2002.
“This form is a great step in the right direction,” she said,
It was created and will be administered by ASUSU, University Assessment, advisers and Transitional Services, Stokes said.
Stokes said it is designed to work after students see their adviser. The adviser will ask them to go online to evaluate their performance. A student can then access the evaluation form and answer such questions as who his or her adviser is, how often he or she sees the adviser, how available the adviser is and how helpful the adviser is.
Stokes said students also have a place on the form to leave specific comments.
The results of each evaluation will then go to the adviser and the adviser’s director, she said.
Stokes said the results of the evaluations will not be available to students, because “it is not for students to rank advisers, this is for advisers to improve themselves.”
The resolution for the evaluation form was passed and will go on to the administration to be approved, Stokes said.
In other business, a new organization called Families First is being created “to strengthen the commitments of students to their families,” said Alecia Frederickson, Families First’s president and a senior business administration major.
According to the organization’s mission statement, members “believe in the proper setting the natural family [ a woman and a man legally married with children] can and will continue to strengthen society, family relationships and citizen bonds worldwide.”
Frederickson said Families First was started due to past violent actions by students in school systems. She said after the Columbine High School incident, the governor said violence in school was partly due to lack of family values instilled in students.
“We hope 20 years from now we can be a part of statistics saying family life is better than when I grew up,” Frederickson said.