Ujjwala Lahoti has a routine when deciding what classes to take. The UB senior accounting major goes online, looks up the course she is considering and notes the name of the professor teaching a class ...

RateMyProfessors.com, an online forum for students to rate their instructors, this week quietly dropped a prominent and widely criticized category: the chili pepper, denoting a professor’s physical ...

RateMyProfessors.com is a website – now owned by MTV – that fills a strange space in the mindset of the academic community. At its best, it is a forum for students to honestly and anonymously evaluate ...

Your professor holds forth in class, lecturing, orating, gesturing, bantering — equal parts pedagogue and performer. But never mind his or her grasp of subject or teaching style. Is your professor hot ...

There are professors who find student comments on their end-of-semester evaluations so upsetting that they cry after reading them. If my course evaluations have tended to be pretty good, I can still ...

Instructors have little to lose by responding to student criticism on RateMyProfessors.com, a new study suggests, and what they say could actually end up having a positive impact on student ...

This is one of the reasons "RateMyProfessors.com" is not a useful resource, the metrics are stupid. You also end up with rankings mostly based on how easy a course is rather than anything else because ...