BY JOHN W. LAWRENCE In an article published in the May/June 2018 issue of Academe entitled Student Evaluations of Teaching Are Not Valid, I briefly reviewed the literature on whether student evaluations of teaching (SET) are good measures of teaching effectiveness. They are not. First, SET scores reflect race, gender, age and other biases of…
POSTED BY KELLY HAND May–June 2018 | Vol. 104, No. 3 Contributors to the new issue of Academe remind us that even in the face of attacks against higher education from the outside, it is from the inside that we must work to keep our colleges and universities the best in the world. Articles include discussions of…
BY CRAIG VASEY AND LINDA CARROLL This is a guest post by Craig Vasey and Linda Carroll. Craig Vasey is professor of philosophy and chair of the Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion at the University of Mary Washington. He is a former member of the AAUP’s national council and current chair of the Committee…