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Alumni Evaluate Poly Sci Courses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2020

Frank Whelon Wayman
Frank Whelon Wayman*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Dearborn
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The political scientists at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, concerned about what becomes of political science majors in today's job market, have completed a survey of the occupational status and quality of life of recent alumni. This paper examines the potential contributions of that survey as a model for future evaluations of political science programs and other liberal arts programs. In the paper, I will discuss the design of the study, its findings, and the lessons that might be useful to those who would wish to do such studies on their own campuses.

Design

The University of Michigan, Dearborn evaluation was done primarily by, and for the benefit of, the political science faculty. Thus, the evaluation was tailored to particular faculty interests and concerns.

Type
Research Article
Information
News for Teachers of Political Science , Volume 38 , Summer 1983 , pp. 15 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1983

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Notes

1. I would like to acknowledge several individuals who made this paper possible. Professor Ronald Stockton and I worked together to develop the questionnaire, which was then critiqued by the members of the political science discipline at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. Professors Donald Anderson and Joseph Cepuran worked with me in analyzing the results of the survey of political science alumni. Caryl Lane, an MPA student, completed a comparison of English, sociology, and political science alumni responses to the questionnaire in a term paper for my research methods course, and the cross-tabulations of those data in the present paper have been borrowed from her work.

2. These figures omit two employed alumni who declined to report their income.

3. Remarks of Professor Joseph Cepuran in his section of our report, “Evaluation of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Dearborn.” (Mimeo, June 15, 1979.)

4. For the results in this paragraph I am indebted to the analysis of Professor Donald Anderson in “Evaluation of Political Science at the University of Michigan - Dearborn.“