Student Evaluations Promote Mediocrity
Today’s evaluation of professors according to their popularity with students pales in contrast to the in-depth professional evaluation of teaching of the past.
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Robert Weissberg
Robert Weissberg was born in New York City and graduated from Teaneck High School in Teaneck, New Jersey. He received his bachelor’s degree from Bard College and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since 1969 he has taught political science at Cornell University and the University of Illinois-Urbana and is currently an adjunct professor of politics (at the graduate level) at New York University. He is the author of eleven books, including his most recent, Bad Students, Not Bad Schools. His professional articles have appeared in the major political science journals plus more general publications such as Society, the Weekly Standard and the American Thinker website. For more information, see his website, badstudentsnotbadschools.com.Articles by Robert Weissberg
How Universities Breed Dependency
Modern universities are providing a failure-free existence that eliminates an important component of a free society: self-reliance.