Thursday, March 10, 2005

Gallaudet University - Rate Your Professor.

Here's a new one. A website where you can rate your professors at Gallaudet University. Seems like a good idea but the underlying results could prove devastating to poor performing professors or professors who seem to have a prediliction on flirting with young girls will red flags pop up for Gallaudet University's administrators to take notice when it was them who hired these people in the first place. Lots of positive/negative comments are made.

Of course, there is no way to gauge the actual truthfulness of these online surveys along with comments that borders on slanderous, even criminally charging towards some professors thus eliciting hateful responses:
We also get some pretty hateful emails telling us how inappropriate the site is, how they are going to shut us down, etc.

Sounds like liberals bent on extolling the "virtues" on freedom of expression.

Anyway, the responses are sometime funny. A few writes of one professor who remind them of grandpa. While some of the more "famous" professors get accolades such as "Skip" Williams. He's a go-getter and burn the crutches right off the ground. He's like a guy doing Mach 2 on those sidewalks on the campus of Gallaudet University. Well, at least he did in his younger days when I was a student there, uh, 15 years ago.

The best rating at 4.8 out 5.0 with enough students responding (8) to make it acceptably "valid" is, so far, Professor Bernard Brown. And the worst one comes in at 1.6 out 5.0 is Professor "Grandpa" Beasely with 9 respondents. Poor guy. I never had him, though. But I've seen him in the hallways wondering who the heck he is. And that was 15 years ago. Even then he looked like "Grandpa."

Look around the website and get the skinny on which professors at Gallaudet University get ranked favorably or unfavorably. There are a few vicious comments...oooh and ouch! But, hey, that's reality and the world ain't a cakewalk. There are such things as really, really bad professors.

Regardless, the website is worth looking into every 6 months when more come online to register and do the ranking survey. So, sign up!

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