Full-time MBA Program: Haas School

Other Academic Resources

	Other Academic Resources
	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.
	GSI - Graduate Student Instructor Resource Center
	Graduate Student Instructors will find information about workshops, grants, instructional resources and more at http://gsi.berkeley.edu/. Top
	Student Project Listing
	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/student_project_listings.cfm Top
	Brasch Tutor Program
	Tutoring is provided free of charge to students who are having academic difficulty in the following core courses: Data and Decisions (MBA200S) Microeconomics (MBA201A) Financial Accounting (MBA202) Finance (MBA203) Macroeconomics (MBA201B) Operational Leadership (MBA204) As first steps in getting extra help students should take advantage of faculty office hours, attend Friday discussion sections led by Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs), and work with their assigned study group. If you need help above and beyond those resources, your GSI will be available for extra tutoring through the Brasch program. Academic difficulty is defined as being at risk of receiving a grade of C or lower. Your instructor and GSI will determine who is in need of tutoring, based on class performance. Please contact them directly if you need this resource. Top
	Class Representatives
	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. Top
	Faculty Evaluation
	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: https://aai.haas.berkeley.edu/TIES/. Note: this link can be used only from inside the berkeley.edu domain, not when you are logged in remotely. Top
	Cheit Award
	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. Top