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...good scores in the CUE, it might help to be cute. As the Committee on Undergraduate Education closes its online professor evaluation survey today, a new study suggests that physically attractive professors perform better in web-based assessments. The study, “Web-Based Student Evaluations of Professors: the Relations between Perceived Quality, Easiness and Sexiness,” was conducted by three professors at Central Michigan University. One of them, Professor of Finance James Felton, said that he had looked at the ratings and comments on the website RateMyProfessors.com and decided it might be interesting to explore...
...present at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting at which the idea of compulsory CUE evaluations was discussed (“CUE Proposal Irks Some Faculty,” news, May 3). I tried to get recognized to support the proposal, but was not called on. I was disappointed that there was opposition to this proposal from my faculty colleagues. I am no fan of anonymous surveys, and in the meeting, I found myself agreeing with many of the criticisms that my colleagues (even Harvey C. Mansfield ’53) leveled at the CUE evaluation process. But what...
...complicates so much of Harvard’s administration. Rather, professors should think of teaching as a cooperative activity, involving students, graduate assistants, faculty colleagues and administrators. We need more collective responsibility and institutional memory in our teaching. We do not need more individual faculty prerogatives. Even though the CUE process needs improvement, I believe that the proposal of compulsory CUE evaluations is a step in the right direction, and that it will hasten the day when we are all pulling together in the difficult business of teaching and learning...
...Faculty failed to reach quorum for a vote to require classes of five or more students to be evaluated for the CUE Guide. But the proposal ran into opposition from several professors who said the move would be an encroachment on “professorial autonomy...
...nice on my CUE guides. I don’t know if it’s the eternal optimist in me saying that the class could have always been worse, but I never skewer the bad classes I take, or at least not in quite the way I intend to before faced with bubbles to fill.Looking at the nine-page “Senior Survey,” a CUE guide for the entire Harvard experience, I promised myself I would be more objective. I would complain about all the minor annoyances and real aggravations that marred my time...