RateMyProfessors

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,68941,00.html

I love this idea, maybe this will get some of the profs that are just there to do research out of the classrooms, where they stink.  If you're just there to do research, go find a job in industry, academies are for students to learn, not sports, not professors pet projects, not clubs, and not social groups.

Robie believes universities would be better off collecting formal faculty ratings and disclosing them only to students.

Swapceinski, who got the idea to start RateMyProfessors following a bad experience with a professor at San Jose State, doesn't think that's a bad idea. However, he fears students would withhold negative opinions if the university is the one collecting evaluations.

But Robie insists there's a better solution than putting evaluations online for the world to see.

"What other job are your performance records up to public scrutiny?" he asked. "Just because many professors are being paid by taxpayers, does that mean they give up all rights to privacy?"

Absolutely, everyone in private industry has performance reviews where their employer reviews how they are doing, why should that be different if you are employed by taxpayers?  That means that the taxpayers should be able to see how you are doing in your job.  If you are going to take a position serving the public, the public should be able to find out how you are performing in that position.