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By: sobey

sobey — Sat, 08 May 2010 22:16:05 +0000

I wish my school Furman university did it I have had a hand full of just awful professors who really should be fired for taking money to destroy students mind you this school is tough and very expensive they also make it almost impossible to take a class over the summer at another school and transfer the credit they want the money.there is nothing we can do to complain it falls on deaf ears tensur is a pass for the unqualified tired of teaching just buying time professors.Love the school but you either have great professors that want the cream on the top or lousy professors that don't care.I love the school but we have a high transfer rate because the academics are so tough and the price so high.they trick you into thinking it's not hard to get in they give you money only to loose it first semester to the fact the they make it so hard to keep your grades up.this is not a party school in anyway but the academic pressure is in sane everyone take adderall.

By: Lauren Hooker

Lauren Hooker — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:08:22 +0000

That's nice that schools did this; I wish mine did.

However, I think that about 98% of the time (Have you ever read RateMyProf?!?!?) students are entirely unfair, especially if they've received a bad grade.

I dunno; I just feel like a lot of profs get a bad rap, when you should be looking a little closer at the students; who shows up to class? Who studies? Can you really evaluate a person if you're only showing up to class once a week and never studying? Is it really their fault that you fail?

On the flipside, there are definitely some professors who need a little bit of evaluating!!

By: cat

cat — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:36:35 +0000

Most universities I know of (in Canada) do this..

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By: Kyrstin

Kyrstin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:09:20 +0000

Even at my school up in CANADA they do this.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:46:14 +0000

I go to a small private school in Iowa and my school does this. The department heads and people on the committee who determine salary and tenure also sit in on classes to make sure that the professors are doing what they are supposed to. For tenure, students also get interviewed to see what the student opinions are.

By: Maddie

Maddie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:23:43 +0000

Wow! I assumed all schools did this.. The little state college I currently attend does this. I hope the school I transfer to does this too!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:23:01 +0000

My school technically has evaluations, but they’re not mandatory, and only the department chair sees them (and doesn’t do a damn thing with them). Literally, one professor was so unclear in teaching one of my chemistry classes that 2 sections of the course (about 150 people) wrote about how horrible he is. I’m pretty sure he actually doesn’t know chemistry — there were 2 students that would end up taking over class because the professor couldn’t remember how to do anything, or did it wrong. I know other classes have written awful reviews about him too for several years. The next thing we know, he got tenure.

I’m amazed that other schools actually do something useful with the reviews…and completely jealous! Especially of the available online thing. I would love to be able to read them.

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:23:00 +0000

My school did this (RIT). We did it every quarter and a lot of teachers would say “Because of the performance reviews from last quarter I will be changing the way I teach a little”. Our reviews of the teachers were anonymous. We had to fill out a scantron sheet and were prompted to write about what we liked and didn’t like. It worked well.