April 7, 2006

The Good Old Days of Rating Professors

To the Editor:

Students publicly evaluated their professors long before the Internet brought us RateMyProfessors.com, discussed by Rob Franciosi in "I'm Not a Chili Pepper. Are You?" (The Chronicle Review, February 17). During my years at Yale University (1968-72), my classmates and I eagerly read the annual editions of the Yale Student Course Critique. They were a richer source of guidance for anyone in search of reliable facts and opinions than can be found today on commercial and