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Course Stewards\\
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Approved December 12, 2008
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Course Stewards are faculty in the Institute of Technology
associated with every Core course in each of the major and minor degree
programs offered.  There are three key objectives associated with a
course stewardship program.
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\item To employ the practice of peer review to the Core courses so as
to improve their quality over time, the consistency with which they
are offered by different instructors, and their continuing fit within
an evolving degree program.

\item To ensure that there is more than one instructor ready to teach
any Core course, and there is always someone who can step in to do so
under very short notice if the need arises.

\item To document faculty and administrative agreement that faculty
assigned as course stewards will teach the stewarded course on a
regular basis and over a length of time time sufficient to justify their
investment in ongoing course development and review.
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Each Core course in each degree program will have a minimum of 2 and a
maximum of 4 course stewards at any time.  Each full-time faculty
member will serve as a steward on a minimum of 2 core courses (barring
exceptional circumstances). Part-time faculty and faculty outside of
the Institute who regularly teach an Institute course can be assigned
as course stewards. The Director is responsible for assigning faculty
stewards. The expectation is that the steward will teach the course
multiple times but not indefinitely. The course scheduler will make
every effort to schedule each course steward to teach the course at
least once every other year, more frequently if possible. Related
courses will be grouped into \emph{clusters} for coordination and
linkage as discussed below. The Director is responsible for assigning
courses to clusters. The Director will designate one person from each
cluster to serve as the cluster coordinator.

The Director will attempt to assign stewards based on each faculty
member's interests, expertise, and anticipated professional
trajectory, balancing these faculty preferences with the needs of the
academic unit and the long-term health of the Institute. Because of
changes in personnel, sabbaticals, and individual faculty interests,
there might be occasions when the Director assigns a faculty member as
steward to a course that is not one of their preferred
courses. Changes to stewardship can occur at any time during the
calendar year. 

Being a course steward means: 1) being willing and able to teach the
course at the last minute (though every effort will be made to avoid
this); 2) sharing course materials with other stewards on request; 3)
meeting at least once each year with the other stewards for this
course; 4) meeting at least once each year with the stewards of the
courses in the same cluster, and 5) discussing the results of the
yearly review meetings during a full faculty meeting arranged for this
purpose. By default, this full faculty meeting will be the last
meeting of the winter quarter, and of a duration sufficient to discuss
the full curriculum. 

The person designated as the cluster coordinator is responsible for
coordinating the cluster meeting, and, at their discretion, making a
report to the full faculty from the cluster.

During the yearly meeting among course stewards of the same course
(item 3 above), stewards will 1) review the course objectives (do they
still make sense? are they complete?  are they too ambitious?), 2)
evaluate the extent to which students are meeting these (primarily
through examining and reflecting on student performance on
assignments, labs, and exams), and 3) determine if any changes to the
course should be proposed to the full faculty. During the yearly
meeting among stewards of courses in the same cluster (item 4 above),
stewards will define and integrate the content across courses within
the cluster.

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