By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed
For years, critics have pointed to flaws in the reliability of RateMyProfessors, which remains popular with many students. As far back as 2006, for example, a study found that students gave the highest ratings to professors seen as easy graders or good-looking.
But a new study raises the possibility that students are not equal opportunity in what they write in their anonymous reviews. And while those reviews may not be used officially, they can easily reflect what students write on their official evaluations of faculty members.
Read the story here.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Students walk out of UC San Diego teach-in
Los Angeles Times
By Larry Gordon
February 25, 2010
Reporting from San Diego - A student walkout Wednesday disrupted a UC San Diego teach-in that was intended to promote tolerance in the wake of two recent racially charged incidents. Many of those involved said the protest showed how difficult it will be for the beachside campus to overcome long-standing concerns about the small number of African American students enrolled there.More than 1,200 students, faculty and staff packed an auditorium in the student center for the teach-in, which campus administrators organized in response to the incidents, including an off-campus party Feb. 15 that mocked Black History Month. But halfway through the planned two-hour session, hundreds of students walked out. The students, who were joined by many others during the afternoon, held their own noisy but peaceful rally outside the building, calling on UC San Diego leaders to improve conditions for minority students and boost their numbers.
Full Story: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucsd25-2010feb25,0,4256213.story
By Larry Gordon
February 25, 2010
Reporting from San Diego - A student walkout Wednesday disrupted a UC San Diego teach-in that was intended to promote tolerance in the wake of two recent racially charged incidents. Many of those involved said the protest showed how difficult it will be for the beachside campus to overcome long-standing concerns about the small number of African American students enrolled there.More than 1,200 students, faculty and staff packed an auditorium in the student center for the teach-in, which campus administrators organized in response to the incidents, including an off-campus party Feb. 15 that mocked Black History Month. But halfway through the planned two-hour session, hundreds of students walked out. The students, who were joined by many others during the afternoon, held their own noisy but peaceful rally outside the building, calling on UC San Diego leaders to improve conditions for minority students and boost their numbers.
Full Story: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucsd25-2010feb25,0,4256213.story
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Panel faults Emerson on diversity
Boston.com
Says school has ignored role of racial bias in faculty tenure, promotion
By Tracy Jan, Globe Staff February 2, 2010
For too long, Emerson College has ignored the role racial bias plays in tenure and promotion, leading to an overwhelmingly white faculty and leaving blacks at a disadvantage, according to a pointed external review released yesterday.
The college commissioned the review last fall following the uproar over college officials’ denial of tenure to two black professors, a controversy that prompted soul-searching at the communications arts school in downtown Boston.
The three-member panel found no overt racism barring the recruitment and retention of black professors. But it said enduring stigma and negative bias leaves black academics in a “caste-like position,’’ in which their intellectual worth and contributions are often undervalued and their advancement slowed.
“It is not intended, but it’s the result of patterns that perpetuate forms of discrimination,’’ said Ted Landsmark, a civil rights activist and president of Boston Architectural College who headed the review panel.
Only four of Emerson’s 117 tenured and tenure-track faculty are black. Of those, just three have been tenured in the school’s 129-year history; two of them had to sue for the promotion.
The review panel - which included Evelynn Hammonds, dean of Harvard College, and JoAnn Moody, a national consultant on faculty diversity and development - recommends that Emerson provide better mentoring and professional development for tenure-track faculty, clarify departmental tenure requirements, and increase the multicultural competency of faculty and administrators to better recognize biases.
The college commissioned the review last fall following the uproar over college officials’ denial of tenure to two black professors, a controversy that prompted soul-searching at the communications arts school in downtown Boston.
The three-member panel found no overt racism barring the recruitment and retention of black professors. But it said enduring stigma and negative bias leaves black academics in a “caste-like position,’’ in which their intellectual worth and contributions are often undervalued and their advancement slowed.
“It is not intended, but it’s the result of patterns that perpetuate forms of discrimination,’’ said Ted Landsmark, a civil rights activist and president of Boston Architectural College who headed the review panel.
Only four of Emerson’s 117 tenured and tenure-track faculty are black. Of those, just three have been tenured in the school’s 129-year history; two of them had to sue for the promotion.
The review panel - which included Evelynn Hammonds, dean of Harvard College, and JoAnn Moody, a national consultant on faculty diversity and development - recommends that Emerson provide better mentoring and professional development for tenure-track faculty, clarify departmental tenure requirements, and increase the multicultural competency of faculty and administrators to better recognize biases.
Picture: Ted Landsmark, Boston Globe
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