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Subjection to the overt personal political views of professors in a classroom setting is not education. No discipline can claim that a logical and essential conclusion of its objective study must be a political position. A professor??€™s diatribes against President Bush or veiled endorsements of Democratic policies are not lessons of a positive science; they are personal opinion. If presented at all, they should aired separately from what is viewed as the objective lesson and accompanied by a contrasting point of view...
...number of cases of biased grading practices on account of political leanings is surely less severe than the problem of teaching fellow ignorance or poorly worded exams. Until cases of the persecution of conservatives appear on its campus, a college should refrain from exerting undue influence on a professor??€™s right to free and open expression...
...research university with dozens of big-name professors who are constantly breaking new ground in their fields, it is quite easy to forget about teaching skills when it comes time to tenure faculty. The current system does not entirely ignore a professor??€™s ability to teach, but we question the reliability of the measures used in tenure process to gauge teaching skills. By looking primarily at CUE Guide figures, those involved in tenure discussions can certainly get a taste of which teachers garnered a couple of quickly jotted positive comments or a few more fives than fours...
...appraisal to Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin. These letters are put in professors’ files, which are reviewed yearly and also when professors are being considered for tenure decisions. While a letter from one student might be only a small part of evaluating a professor??€™s career, it still gives one more piece of evidence for tenure committees to consider...
...would never pass up an opportunity to go to class; the professor??€™s mistakes might go unnoticed...