Posted on 09.29.14 by Paul Gordon Brown
SPOTLIGHT: Lehigh University’s Faculty Read Mean RateMyProfs Reviews

It’s somewhat of a rarity to find faculty involved in university social media efforts, but extremely rare to find a content that is exclusively focused on faculty. Lehigh University put together a gem of a video with professors reading negative reviews of their teaching from the website RateMyProfessors.com. The video is a play off of Jimmy Kimmel’s popular “Celebrities Read Mean Tweets” videos from his late night talk show. Apparently this phenomenon began at a number of Canadian universities. The Chronicle of Higher Education has a great piece that includes some similar videos. What makes… Read More