By: Proffie

Proffie
Wed, 03 Feb 2016 18:10:17 +0000

This is ridiculous–yet another way for students to “shop around” for the classes that will be easy and less taxing. Doesn’t Rate My Professor fulfill the same function? And since adjuncts make up the majority of teachers at OSU (the vast, vast majority), that makes absolutely no sense, since they don’t even know IF they’ll be teaching next semester, let alone what.

And even if they do know what they’re teaching, and produce syllabi accordingly, it will cause even yet more dumbing down of OSU’s curriculum. Since classes taught by adjuncts can be cancelled at the last minute if not enough students enroll, then adjuncts will have the incentive to make their classes as easy, entertaining, and enticing as possible to attract the lowest common denominator.

OSU students already do far less work than students at other universities. They read less, write less, and receive more inflated grades. Why don’t we try to buck THAT trend?