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<blockquote data-quote="YukonGlocker" data-source="post: 2896762" data-attributes="member: 425"><p>Thanks for the clarification. Here's a shamefully brief reply (I'd write more if I had time...and may come back to this later): I agree with part, but not all of your statements. In some ways academia in general has done a better job of addressing the issues you raise (e.g., setting up systems to educate grad-student-instructors and professors about these issues and how to handle them ethically; setting up systems for students to more easily deal with the power-differentials and protect the student's interest over the professor's; better student judicial services; the current zeitgeist/environment which rewards alternative perspectives and ideological/personal debates better than older ones did; etc.); but in some ways academia has done worse (e.g., over-relying on adjunct instructors which sometimes aren't as equipped to handle these issues as fairly and ethically). Many institutions/universities are running on business models in which students are customers, and "customers are always right" (that is taking it to the extreme, but the sentiment is there somewhere)...so in some relevant ways the pendulum has swung from favoring professors to favoring students. MyEdu and Facebook has taken over much of professor ratings, so using RateMyProfessor would be questionable, but maybe doable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="YukonGlocker, post: 2896762, member: 425"] Thanks for the clarification. Here's a shamefully brief reply (I'd write more if I had time...and may come back to this later): I agree with part, but not all of your statements. In some ways academia in general has done a better job of addressing the issues you raise (e.g., setting up systems to educate grad-student-instructors and professors about these issues and how to handle them ethically; setting up systems for students to more easily deal with the power-differentials and protect the student's interest over the professor's; better student judicial services; the current zeitgeist/environment which rewards alternative perspectives and ideological/personal debates better than older ones did; etc.); but in some ways academia has done worse (e.g., over-relying on adjunct instructors which sometimes aren't as equipped to handle these issues as fairly and ethically). Many institutions/universities are running on business models in which students are customers, and "customers are always right" (that is taking it to the extreme, but the sentiment is there somewhere)...so in some relevant ways the pendulum has swung from favoring professors to favoring students. MyEdu and Facebook has taken over much of professor ratings, so using RateMyProfessor would be questionable, but maybe doable. [/QUOTE]
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