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In article <1agobhINNik6@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bm665@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jay Robert Hauben) writes:
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>                             ......                   Still many 
>of the students taking these labs seek me out. But now it is to 
>find out why the class has changed and why I am not teaching the 
>course anymore. Most of them express the loss this represents. 
>Some have asked what if anything can be done to return the labs 
>to their former higher and friendlier level.

Certainly.  You should tell them to whom they should complain and how 
to do so effectively.  They should complain, in a typewritten letter, 
to the chairman of the department offering the course with cc: to 
their own department chair (if different), the Dean(s) of the college(s) 
involved, and the Provost.  The letter should be no more than one page 
and should clearly show the cc recipients at the bottom.  A cover letter 
to the persons getting the cc (one paragraph) might also be helpful, but 
they could also hand deliver the cc to their own department chair and 
make the complaint in person. 

The effectiveness of the complaint will be enhanced if they are clear 
about how specific changes affect their career preparations in a 
negative way.  It should not have anything to do with grades, only 
objective measures of what is (not) being taught.  

( It could be the case, of course, that the department needed you in 
( the more difficult pre-med course, but why the chair did not tell you 
( what is going on ... well, not all department heads are good managers. 

( As to the cancellation last summer, if FSU had not done so well on the 
( football field last year, there would have been *no* summer classes here. 
( This past year has not been a good one at most universities.

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