“Filling evaluations out by hand is annoying,” he said.
Departments that used online evaluations in a pilot program last semester “had some of the highest response rates,” Chadbourne said.
Kane also oversaw a move from paper to online evaluations while serving as Yale’s registrar.
“Our biggest nay-sayers [about online evaluations] at Yale were blown away by the substantive responses they got,” Kane said.
CUE members expressed their excitement about the willingness of students to participate in the evaluation process and the possibility of collaborative projects between students and the administration in the future.
“This represented our ability to be really proactive,” Chadbourne said.
—Staff writer Allison A. Frost can be reached at afrost@fas.harvard.edu.