January 24, 2003

In Defense of a Web Site to Expose Professors' Biases

To the Editor:

Universities not only permit, but in some cases encourage, students to publish course evaluations in which, for understandable reasons, the evaluations appear without attribution ("Web Site Lists Professors Who 'Indoctrinate' Students," December 13). My experience has been that most student complaints concern such things as whether the teacher assigns too much work, is a tough grader, and so on. And professors, again in my experience, don't seem too exercised by this;