Workload, Morale, and Quality of Life

California Institute of Technology

2007 Student-Faculty Conference

Building on Past Recommendations…

2003/2005 Committees- TQFR- Lunch hours for campus offices- Healthier food choices in C-Store, CDS- Non-clashing exams/sets during midterms- Attempts to get a handle on unit data- REGIS- Stewardship Committee

2006 Exit Survey…

70% satisfied with employment opportunities

66% would come to Caltech again 58% would recommend it to a student like

themselves

2006 Exit Survey…

Less than half satisfied with quality of advising process, especially before choosing their major

In 2005 Faculty Survey, a significant number of faculty felt they were not informed enough on how to advise.

This year’s committee

Student/Faculty Interactions- ARC is setting up student faculty lunches on a once a

term basis- ASCIT has ample funds for this, but for one reason or

another they are largely unused.- Suggested to institute advisor-student lunches (possibly

using ASCIT funding) on a once-a-term basis- Also, propose MOSH/ASCIT funded faculty lunches in

the houses

This year’s committee

Student/Faculty Interactions- Faculty Guide website is operational, does a lot to inform- A student-led portion of the faculty orientation might be

useful as well- Highlight role of student option reps as complement to

advisors

This year’s committee

Athletic uniting- Athletic Department is looking into how sports

teams are united in relation to PE classes- Suggested survey of student-athletes to gather

uniting data

This year’s committee

Counseling and tutoring

- Services are not as well publicized as they could be.

- Advisor should have these resources at hand to suggest to student

Upcoming developments

Admissions is forming a task force to explore possibly introducing partially holistic methods of evaluation of applicants

Thanks for coming!

Committee members: - Noah Rahman - Prof. Jim Heath (CCE)- Leighland Feinman - Prof. John Eiler (GPS)- John Hasier - Prof. John Preskill (PMA)- Daniel Rowlands - Jane Curtis (Counseling)- Andrea Dubin- Nathaniel Borneman - Floor open for questions- Muzhou Wang /discussion.- Haile Xiao