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GSI - Graduate Student Instructor Resource Center
Student Project Listing
Brasch Tutor Program
Class Representatives
Faculty Evaluation
Cheit Award
Haas and UC Berkeley offer a multitude of resources to help you succeed in your studies. This section of the Website outlines tutoring opportunities (being one and using one), describes the libraries and databases available to you, and explains how faculty members are evaluated by you and the school.
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GSI - Graduate Student Instructor Resource Center
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Graduate Student Instructors will find information about workshops, grants, instructional resources and more at http://gsi.berkeley.edu/.
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Student Project Listing
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Do you have a business project that could use some student help? Are you a Haas student looking for a real-world project to work on? There is a Website that can help. Companies and organizations post projects in the business and non-profit sectors. Students can search for postings that match their interests and their needs for class projects. Go to: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/mba_program/student_services/spl/.
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Brasch Tutor Program
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The Brasch Tutor program pays for tutorial services for core courses at Haas. The tutors are second-year Haas and PhD students with strong academic records.
Requesting a tutor
Tutoring is provided free of charge to students who are having academic difficulty in core courses. Academic difficulty means you are at risk of receiving a grade of C or lower.
To request a tutor, contact the MBA Program Office by e-mail. In your e-mail, give the name of the course for which you want to be tutored and explain why you are at risk of earning a grade of C or lower.
Becoming a tutor
You may apply to be a Brasch tutor if you:
• Are a second-year Haas MBA or Ph.D student or are registered graduate student at UC Berkeley enrolled in a minimum of eight semester units.
• Have at least a 3.0 grade-point average.
• Have taken and earned a grade of A or A-, passed the waiver exam or have completed coursework well beyond the course you want to tutor.
• Do not have more than two Incomplete grades in upper division and graduate courses on your transcript.
• Are not employed as a Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) for the same class you want to tutor.
Tutor positions are covered by a collective bargaining agreement with the United Automobile Workers (UAW). Tutors are paid by the Haas School at an hourly rate per the UAW contract. Each hour of tutoring entails one hour of preparation and/or follow-up. Tutors will not work more than 25% time or 10 hours per week (i.e., five tutoring sessions). If you also work as a Reader, your total work time in both positions may not exceed 10 hours per week.
Tutor Salaries
| Title Code |
Title Name |
October 2004 Hourly |
| 2510, 2860, 2861 |
Tutor-Individual-Graduate |
10.51 |
| 2510, 2860, 2861 |
Tutor-Group-Graduate |
13.24 |
Tutors are hired for one semester appointments. At the end of the semester if you wish to tutor again you must be rehired. Contact the MBA Program Office for more information about applying to become a tutor.
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Class Representatives
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Class representatives are conduits for student opinion between students and the instructor in each course. They are chosen by the instructor, usually during the second or third class meeting. Typically, there are two class representatives for core courses and electives with a large enrollment; electives with fewer students may have a single class representative.
Class reps have two responsibilities:
• Conducting a class audit – At least once a semester (usually in the fourth or fifth week) class reps ask the professor to end class 10 minutes early. The class reps use this time to ask students how the class is going and solicit recommendations for improvement. The class reps then pass this feedback on to the instructor. Some faculty members meet more frequently with their class reps.
• Instructor evaluation – At the end of the semester, the class reps collect instructor evaluation forms (and GSI evaluation forms if the course has one) from the Dean’s Office, distributes them to students during the last class session and returns the completed forms to the Dean’s Office.
All core course class reps meet as a group two or three times during the semester with the Associate Dean and the MBA Program Director to discuss the core courses and their instructors. This allows them to act in a timely manner to resolve any problems in core courses.
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Faculty Evaluation
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You will be asked to complete an evaluation form for each class and instructor, usually during the last class meeting. These evaluation forms are tabulated and the ratings are made public by the administration. The overall effectiveness of the instructor and the overall value of the course are computed on a seven-point scale. Faculty with a median score of six or higher are honored as members of “Club 6.”
Visitors and lecturers who score below four generally are not rehired. Regular faculty members who score below five are encouraged to take steps to improve their teaching effectiveness by participating in different forms of assistance offered by Haas. Faculty members take these teaching evaluations very seriously and we encourage you to do the same.
For a complete set of faculty evaluations, go to: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/FacultyEvals/.
Note: this link can be used only from inside the berkeley.edu domain, not when you are logged in remotely.
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Cheit Award
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Each year, we honor our best teachers as recipients of the Cheit Award for Teaching Excellence. In April, every full-time MBA student is asked to nominate a faculty member who has been particularly outstanding. A student committee decides who will receive the honor. The recipient of the Cheit Award is announced at the end-of-year party, usually on the last day of classes in May.
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