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kerry · #1 11-01-2009, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by TylerH860

I can't imagine you're Harold.

http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/gSearchResults.jsp?letter=red%20rocks%20community%20college%20philosophy

I wondered how long that would take. You didn't search deeply enough.

TylerH860 · #2 11-01-2009, 08:30 PM

Looks like nobody has rated you yet, at least at red rocks.

*edit, meant to say commented.

#3 11-01-2009, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by kerry

I wondered how long that would take. You didn't search deeply enough.

So, what did you have to do to earn that "hot" rating?

kerry · #4 11-01-2009, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Craig

So, what did you have to do to earn that "hot" rating?

I've wondered that same thing myself.

Brandon_SLC · #5 11-01-2009, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by kerry

I wondered how long that would take. You didn't search deeply enough.

Yeah, what did you have to do? One student rates you top quality and HOT!

I'm going to assume you are a pretty good teach, since nobody else has rated you so far.

I didn't know about this website till tonight, and I've looked up several top quality professors I've had. Their ratings are still 3/4 negative comments.

That Dr. Jay Anderson I posted a link to, has the most schizophrenic comments I've seen. He's so political that liberals rate him excellent but conservatives aren't so kind. Calling him a Marxist is a dead giveaway. Students who are Marxists just say how great he is. No need to mention his political philosophy if it agrees with yours.

G-Benz · #6 11-01-2009, 11:24 PM

I wonder if the use of TAs or "Teaching Assistants" (what we called them), is akin to hospitals using interns...cost.

If tenured professors had to teach the myriad classes that were being offered at the universities, I would suspect tuition costs would rise a LOT faster than they currently do. That is the same justification the medical community uses for staffing interns to do the grunt patient work...keeps costs down.

Brandon_SLC · #7 11-02-2009, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by G-Benz

I wonder if the use of TAs or "Teaching Assistants" (what we called them), is akin to hospitals using interns...cost.

If tenured professors had to teach the myriad classes that were being offered at the universities, I would suspect tuition costs would rise a LOT faster than they currently do. That is the same justification the medical community uses for staffing interns to do the grunt patient work...keeps costs down.

Another issue is the shear amount of classes in a day. Some classes that are required for every student have so many sections that there aren't enough professors available for all of them. For instance, some classes at Utah State were available from 7:30 AM to 10 PM. There is so much extra work required, that many Profs only teach 3 or 4 classes per day. I don't know how many classes he taught, but I remember one very dedicated Astronomy Professor who taught my class in the morning, (10:30 AM IIRC) and usually didn't head home til 9:30 or 10. (I could see his car from my dorm room.) He was in his 60s, but his stamina was better than mine.

t walgamuth · #8 11-02-2009, 06:22 AM

I substituted for an Architect who taught some construction drawings courses in the interior design program here at PU a few years ago. I had a lecture class and one unit of design studio. There was a personalble young woman grad student who taught the other design studio.

I had about a half dozen groups who all worked on the same design problem. Two groups worked their a$$ off and did quality work, a few who were so so and several individuals who missed a lot of studios and showed up late and worked on other things during the studio time.

I gave two groups A's and varoius other grades including D's to a couple of girls who by the attendance guidelines given me to use should rightly have been failed.

The grad student I learned later gave all A's.

So the underachievers hated me.

Grrrrrrr!

kerry · #9 11-02-2009, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Brandon_SLC

I didn't know about this website till tonight, and I've looked up several top quality professors I've had. Their ratings are still 3/4 negative comments.

If I'm not mistaken, the RatemyProfessor embedded in MySpace has more reviews.--oops, looks like MySpace removed that feature.