Student evalutions

[krasnoludek]

Stanley Fish wrote a couple of great columns about the value of student evaluations in assessing professors and I really think people should check them out if they haven't already. He criticizes administrators for increasing their role in the tenure, promotion and firing of professors, because the flawed framing of the student-professor relationship with the student being a customer who should be satisfied with the product/service they pay for.

Part I
Part II

And, look, even Ross Douthat ended up conceding that Fish had a good point.