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Internet Lawyers -- Not Just for Publishers Anymore
A Dartmouth professor has decided to sue her students (with some faculty thrown in) for discrimination. Supposedly, "discrimination" now entails students disagreeing with you. Who knew?

(If you don't want to wade through all that, there are also summaries at Gawker and IvyGate.)

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florence_craye
2008-05-01 05:51 pm UTC (link)

At my university, a student from each class brings back the envelope of evaluations. Faculty aren't allowed to touch or see them after being filled. The sheets are sent to the magic computer place where the scores are tallied. Then the low-level admin assistants (like me) type all the handwritten comments for the faculty. One copy of the comments and scores are given to the faculty, and one is filed in the admin office away from prying eyes. I assume the originals are shredded.

So, likely, the evals are only being read by other faculty during tenure review time. The office keeps a copy because faculty never seem to hold onto records very well here.

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	waitwut 2008-05-01 05:54 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, well, some days I do wonder how faculty make it out of the house dressed (which is also why there is a "homeless or tenured" square on a bingo game around campus). We expect faculty to keep them and we don't keep any other record of student comments... that's their call! (And their promotion and their pay raises) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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