Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 7, 2023
I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Like any good millennial, I started by googling “how to recover from poor teaching evaluations” and “is tenure still possible after low evaluations” but found nothing. Years’ worth of courses lie ahead. They always did.
Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 7, 2023
I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Like any good millennial, I started by googling “how to recover from poor teaching evaluations” and “is tenure still possible after low evaluations” but found nothing. Years’ worth of courses lie ahead. They always did.
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Faculty Focus
MARCH 13, 2025
2002) noted that under the current system, if a professor does change a course based on student evaluations, the students who made these comments do not have the opportunity to experience the changes, and that of course reinforces the idea that faculty ignore student evaluations (p. Sojka et al. References Chapman, D.
Edsurge
MARCH 17, 2020
Maria Andersen, adjunct professor Some of these concerns are addressed in the COVID-19 response principles that the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors issued on March 13 to guide colleges. Adjuncts’ current worries aren’t limited to professional matters, of course.
Faculty Focus
MARCH 13, 2025
2002) noted that under the current system, if a professor does change a course based on student evaluations, the students who made these comments do not have the opportunity to experience the changes, and that of course reinforces the idea that faculty ignore student evaluations (p. Sojka et al. References Chapman, D.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
The goal was to highlight key points from the readings and also give a sense of her personality as a teacher. “I Salem Jenison, a 22-year-old senior at the university who took the course, says the videos made her feel more connected to the class. “It I really had to get over the hangups of looking at myself on a camera,” she says.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
Jett spoke in the interview about the ways in which course evaluations contained biases and were not always helpful in informing her teaching approaches. While being aware of the ways gender and other forms of bias impact students’ perceptions of us, as teachers we do need to be cautious not to exasperate the challenges.
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