January 26, 2007

MTV Unit to Buy Web Site for Rating Professors

By ERIK VANCE

MTVu, the campus closed-circuit outlet of the music-television network MTV, announced this month that it planned to buy RateMyProfessors.com, one of the largest online forums for students to anonymously review the teaching abilities of faculty members.

The move, to be made early this year, is part of an expansion of MTVu, which also owns College Publisher, a network that hosts the Web sites of more than 500 student newspapers.

Stephen Friedman, executive vice president of MTVu,

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