Does Instructional Quality Matter to the UC?

UC-AFT is currently bargaining with the UC administration over the terms and conditions of the contract regulating over 3,500 lecturers in the university system.  The majority of these lecturers are in their first six years, and according to the present contract, there is no obligation to review these faculty members.  In fact, in some programs, none of the faculty teaching the majority of required undergraduate courses have been reviewed in ten years.  The people representing the university at the table argue that lecturers should have no expectation of having a career until they pass their sixth-year review, and so it is not necessary to review their teaching and service before they come up for a continuing appointment.  Since most lecturers never make it to their sixth year, this means that the university does not think it is important to judge the quality of instruction for the majority of lecturers. 

When we have pushed the people at the bargaining table to explain why they do not think teachers should be evaluated, we are told that it would be too time consuming and costly to do the reviews.  In other words, instructional quality is such a low priority that the administration does not think it is worth the time or effort to review the effectiveness of instructors. 

As a union, we have been placed in the strange position of demanding that the university review our members as we insist on a high bar for quality instruction.  We have also been forced to develop a contract that can protect against the constant turnover of lecturers.  Since the administration does not think that these teachers in their first six years should have any expectation of continued employment, departments and programs have been able to replace experienced faculty with inexperienced teachers to prevent expert lecturers from gaining any job security.

The university also insists that lecturers working less than half time should have no benefits including social security and pension.   In fact, a majority of lecturers are now hired on a quarterly basis and have no way of knowing when and how much they will be teaching in the future.  Some of the quarterly appointments have been teaching in the UC for over twenty years and still they have no job security. 

We are proud that our contract is one of the best in the country for non-tenure-track faculty, but there are still majors problems with the way the administration views and treats the people teaching more than 35% of the undergraduate student credit hours and a majority of the required undergraduate courses. We need a contract that will protect the quality of undergraduate instruction by evaluating lecturers in an effective manner. 

Duke University

Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that assembled an overall money related domain in the production of tobacco and created power creation in the Carolinas, long had been occupied with Trinity College. Trinity followed its establishes to 1838 in adjacent Randolph County when neighborhood Methodist and Quaker groups opened joint Institute. The school, after that called as Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892. In December 1924, the procurements of James B. Duke's arrangement made the family altruistic establishment, The Duke Endowment, which accommodated the development of Trinity College into Duke University. As a consequence of the Duke blessing, Trinity experienced both physical and scholastic development. The first Durham grounds got to be known as East Campus when it was revamped in stately Georgian structural planning. West Campus, Gothic in style and overwhelmed by the taking off 210-foot tower of Duke, created in 1930. East college is the house of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and ladies' undergrad schools combined. Both men and ladies students now enlist in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus turned into the home for all first-year understudies.

ACADEMICS
       Duke University comprises of 6471 undergraduates and 8379 graduates. The selection process of Duke University is highly selective. Duke is one of the toughest universities in the US in the selection process of its students. It has two schools of undergraduate?s i.e. Trinity college of Arts and Sciences and Pratt School of Engineering. Duke has provided the highest number of scholarships to its students. Among the admitted students, about 50% of the students are under different scholarship schemes provided by the university. Duke provides four engineering programs, 46 arts and sciences majors and 24 certificate programs are also available. Trinity's educational program works under the amended form of "Educational module 2000." It guarantees that understudies are presented to a mixture of "zones of learning" and "modes of inquiry." The educational module plans to help understudies create basic resources and judgment by figuring out how to get to, integrate, and impart information adequately. The goal is to help understudies in getting point of view on flow and authentic occasions, directing research and tackling issues, and building up diligence and a limit for hard and maintained work. Green beans can choose to take part in the FOCUS Program, which permits understudies to participate in an interdisciplinary investigation of a particular subject in a little gathering setting.  There are about 400 university college clubs and organizations running in the University.
Many notable alumni and Nobel scholars has been associated with the Duke University. Duke ranks among the top University in the world according to different statics published annually.

Peking University

Peking University, established in 1898, one of the pioneer research university of China. It is located in the landmark of Beijing. It is the first current national college created in China, established as the "Imperial University of Peking" in 1898 as a substitution of the antiquated Taixue or Guozijian, or Imperial Academy. It additionally served as the most elevated organization for instruction in China toward the start of its establishing. By 1920, it had turned into a core for dynamic thought. It has been reliably respected by both household and universal college rankings as, nearby Tsinghua University, the top higher learning establishment in mainland China.  Peking University is particularly popular for its campus architecture and the excellence of its customary Chinese construction modeling.

Peking University is a broad and National key university. The college, known as "Yan Yuan"- - the greenhouses of Yan, is arranged at the upper east of the Haidian District at the western rural areas of Beijing. It stands close to the Yuan Ming Gardens and the Summer Palace. The University comprises of 30 universities and 12 departments, with 93 groups of students, 2 for the second Bachelor's degree, 199 strengths for Master competitors and 173 fortes for Doctoral hopefuls. While as yet laying weight on essential sciences, the college has given careful consideration to the advancement of connected sciences. At present, Peking college has 216 exploration organizations and examination focuses, and there are 2 national engineering research institutions, 81 key national disciplines, 12 national key labs. The college has made a compelling mix of the exploration on essential exploratory issues with the preparation of staff with abnormal state particular information and expert aptitude as requested by the nation's communist modernization. It endeavors not just for the concurrent upgrades in showing and exploration work, additionally for the advancement of collaboration and common advancement among different subjects. Accordingly Peking University has turned into an inside for showing and exploration and a college of the new sort, comprising of assorted extensions of adapting, for example, unadulterated and connected sciences, sociologies and the humanities, and sciences of administration and instruction. Its point is to rank among the world's best colleges toward the start of the following century.

Academics

Peking University is the national research university. It comprises of 30 campuses and 12 faculties. Presently, Peking University has 216 research institutions and other educational centers which include 2 engineering research lab, 81 national key national disciples and 12 national labs. It has one of the largest libraries in Asia which comprise 4.5 million volumes. Peking University has always focused on practical and research based education and specialized knowledge in accordance with the modernization of the country. It is the top most university in the country so; it has been becoming the favorite educational destination to numbers of students of the country. It has been becoming the center for education and research which consists of diverse branches of learning such as applied sciences, humanities and management. Peking University ranks the top in the china and Asia.

         Peking University accepts nearly 2000 international students, studying in Beijing campus and other campus located in mainland China. Since its establishment, the University has produced many profound personalities in the country. Peking University has two Nobel Prize winners.

Peking University is growing as the topmost university in the world which aims in research of pure and applied sciences and advancement of education.

University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo, one of the oldest and world class research universities, established in 1877 is located at the landmark of Bunkyo, Tokyo, the capital city of Japan. The University of Tokyo is commonly called as ?Todai? in Japanese accent. The university comprises of 10 faculties with 30,000 students including 2,100 foreign students who came to pursue their education here. The university has five colleges located in different places of Japan. The University of Tokyo is the topmost university in the whole Asia and ranks 21^st in the world.

As we all know, The University of Tokyo (Todai) is Japan's top college, a world-class place for examination, and an energetic scholastic group. World-class research Todai's scientists have been at the cutting edge of their fields following our establishment in 1877. Today, their front line explore consistently shows up in top universal diaries and has earned  Nobel prizes. Research at University of Tokyo over art sciences is both wide and profound, as expert information is imparted crosswise over conventional limits to further human comprehension. A strong instruction Todai's undergrad training stresses the aesthetic sciences for the procurement of solid bonding capabilities, a sound moral outlooks, and interdisciplinary awareness, altogether creating a stout foundation for particular information. Volunteer exercises, entry level positions and other off-grounds encounters are an undeniably vital piece of a Todai training. A lively group Todai is a dynamic group in which world-class analysts cooperate with brilliant understudies from Japan and more than 100  nations. Graduated students occupy top positions all over Japan, Asia, and all around the world. Mission Todai means to be a world-class stage for education and research, contributing to human knowledge in business with other driving worldwide colleges. Todai plans to sustain worldwide pioneers with a solid feeling of open obligation and a spearheading soul, having dual high speciality and broad knowledge. Todai intends to grow the limits of human information in association with society.

HISTORY

      The University of Tokyo was founded during the Meiji government in 1877 by collaboration with the old public schools of medicine and western learning. After that it was named Imperial University in 1886 and then Tokyo Imperial University in 1897. During the earthquake of 1923, 700,000 volumes of Imperial library were destroyed. Even though the university was founded in Meiji period, it has earlier evidence of astronomy agency. For the first time in the history of Todai, the university executed the two undergraduate programs taught in English for the international students in 2012.

Since its inception in 1877, Todai has produced large groups of notable personalities including 15 Japanese prime ministers and eight alumni of the university have received the most prestigious Nobel Prize in different fields of science, Peace and Literature. The university has always focused on advance teaching with research in science and technology to produce the best outputs.

Faculties of Todai includes;

?  Engineering

?  Law

?  Medicine

?  Science

?  Agriculture

?  Economics

?  Arts and Sciences

?  Education

?  Pharmaceutical Science

?  Letters

With these above faculties, the university provides the best guidance and support to their students with the help of their best team of  faculty members.