Slate.com’s “How to Be a Hot Prof”

Michael Agger notes in Slate.com that those crafty students are still at it–this time in an online site called ratemyprofessors.com. At this site they tell each other–and profs across the country–what they think of teaching style, and clothing style. In the late 1990s a similar site led to claims of defamation. But published prof ratings are nothing new–I remember little printed books that circulated when I was an undergraduate. Based on student surveys of our campus profs (collected who knows how) they sold for a few dollars, and they were also a very “hot” item.