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...this small cohort is disproportionately likely to need evaluations. While there are a small number of professors who oppose mandatory evaluations on perverse ideological grounds—evaluations “introduce the rule of the less wise over the more wise,” according to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53—it is reasonable to suspect that the vast majority of the professors opting out are simply bad teachers...
...have little enthusiasm for course evaluations even for teaching assistants and fellows. It’s consumerism, and it puts ill-formed opinion of students at the center of teachers’ evaluation,” said Mansfield, the Kenan professor of government...
Best Guest: William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, Episode 78, April...
Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, the Kenan professor of government, said he hoped the photograph wouldn’t affect the presidential search committee’s view of Gutmann...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences last May, when Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 introduced a motion calling for all courses of five or more students to be formally evaluated, he unexpectedly provoked a minor uproar. Several professors spoke against the motion, including Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53. He strongly criticized the proposal, saying, “Course evaluations introduce the rule of the less wise over the more wise, of students over professors.” Professor of German Peter J. Burgard went further, claiming that required evaluations...