Stanley Fish bemoans the use of student evaluations -- which can seem capricious at best and misleading at worst -- as a means of evaluating teaching performance (“Who’s in Charge Here?,” Careers, ...

A couple of weeks after the end of my first semester of teaching as the instructor of record, I received “the packet” in my campus mailbox — an interoffice envelope stuffed with course evaluations ...

Sean Decatur is the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Oberlin College. Updated September 26, 2012, 3:25 PM As a faculty member, I have ...

The saddest and most profound transformation I have witnessed nationwide in my many decades in higher education is professors’ increasing fear of college students. This fear, borne of the increasing ...

Five students are celebrating their hard work after earning one-of-five $100 scholarships for placing first in the three SD ...

For more than a decade, we have reported on issues as well as public policy meant to address the needs of residents. The Lens seeks to focus on the inherent inequality that has created a multi-tiered ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Distance education has experienced soaring development over the last decade. With millions of students in higher education enrolling in ...

The Obama administration, through its Race to the Top initiative, is encouraging states to develop approaches for evaluating teachers that incorporate student-achievement results. This aspect of the ...

In general, all hourly-student employees working for organizational units within the Office of the Vice Provost for Student Life will receive an evaluation of their work performance. Regular, on-going ...

When I began my teaching career two decades ago as an adjunct instructor, I cared a lot about my end-of-course student evaluations—but quite frankly—they mostly served as a means to job security. Over ...

Aaahh. It’s evaluation season. Time for the tables to be turned on you. Yes, you, the professor. You thought you were being so clever by trying to institute some kind of an email policy: Telling your ...