Faculty members will be meeting starting this Thursday to discuss how to improve undergraduate education at Rutgers Camden. Before I go to the meeting, I’d like to hear from you all, our best students, about what you would like to see at Rutgers Camden.
The questions we shall ask are as follows:
- What do we do well with regard to the undergraduate experience?
- What could we do better?
- What are we not doing that we could or should be doing?
So, please help us, and start commenting on this blog entry, so we can hear what you, the students, have to say. I await your replies!
3 responses so far ↓
Robert Becker // April 1, 2009 at 12:49 pm |
This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but perhaps it helps. I have long thought that the GPA system needs to be overhauled. As it is, the freshman year is when most students haven’t decided on a major, and also when they unwittingly tend to take gen eds which may be difficult for them – i.e. a math person taking a writing intensive class right away. Yet, the freshman year has the most weight in determining the overall GPA. The problem inherent in the system is that freshmen are expected to dive right in and succeed while juniors and seniors may not rewarded for their later effort in trying to overcome a poor freshman year.
On the positive side, the Honors College does a great job and providing specialized seminars to alleviate my own dilemma of a great English student needing to take a math class. I, a former varsity baseball player, got to take Baseball Statistics because of the Honors College and I can’t think of a class more tailor-made for me. I know that the seminars go a long way in helping students to fill requirements in a more comfortable and enjoyable fashion.
awoll // April 1, 2009 at 9:12 pm |
RJ: FYI — they are working on a new and broader retake policy which will give you more opportunities to correct some freshman problems. More to come…
Melissa Kendall // April 2, 2009 at 3:04 am |
I would like to see more research opportunities for undergraduate students. I know that professors offer independent study, there is currently a NSF grant supporting pinelands research, and that many professors do their own research in which students are involved. There are definitely opportunities now. However, I feel many students are not aware of research opportunities or think that they are too hard to obtain, especially in the sciences. Research is such a useful, real-life experience that it should be popularized and pursued more frequently.