Word: confi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First things first: Toss the Confi and the CUE guides in the trash can. The former is an unreliable, if amusing, collection of essays on certain classes. These essays are no more than one student's opinion, and that student probably has as much in common with you as Adam. The latter seems more reliable, but typically relies on pitiably small samples from which one can extract little conclusive evidence. It gives two important pieces of information (class size and reading list) but both are easily discernible during shopping period...
...Guide was my idea," Bok says. "We needed something more reliable and something that would be taken more seriously than the Confi Guide. The professors are more willing to listen to an official University document...
Gingerich says that Bok once read a scathing evaluation in the Confi Guide of two assistant professors. According to Gingerich, when Bok read the statistics about the same assistant professors in the CUE Guide, their evaluation was much more "acceptable...
According to Gingerich, Bok then called the Confi Guide to complain about its harsh treatment of the junior Faculty...
...Then [Bok]...asked [the Confi editors], 'What are you doing? What you think is a wonderful joke is a deadly thing for people who are nontenured--it could seriously jeopardize their career,'" Gingerich says...