concerns that increased student recruitment not reflected in course means
- Faculty quota raised from 180 to 220; but Faculty culture had established high course averages that may have accurately reflected initial elite recruitment and may not have responded to 20% increase in student intake
- (However, increase in student intake may have been matched by corresponding increase in applications to faculty, with therefore no change in recruitment of top performing students)
| perception that student pressure on faculty was increasing
- greater consumerism among students - sense of entitlement to high grades as part of the product purchased
- perception that pressure was greatest on untenured staff
- urgency of issue somewhat abated with perception that administration had reassured untenured faculty that course evaluations would be interpreted in context
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