Some college students have looked at RateMyProfessors.com, or a similar professor-rating website, while picking classes, hoping to avoid the hard-grader or longwinded whisperer. However, after recent ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A red chili pepper that indicates the “hotness” of a professor may be a deciding factor for some ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Politicians aren't the only ones who have to worry about getting caught with their foot in their mouth and having it posted on the Web. Students are now being encouraged to photograph their professors ...