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Making the Grade: Rating Professors

Making the Grade: Rating Professors Brian Duffy, BrianDuffyCartoons.com, in The Hightower Lowdown, April 2014 744789 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796017744789New Labor ForumSperber research-article2017 New Labor Forum 2018, Vol. 27(1) 36 –43 Making the Grade: Copyright © 2017, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: Rating Professors sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796017744789 DOI: 10.1177/1095796017744789 journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Joshua Sperber Keywords capitalism, contingent workers, education, labor, consumption Created by Silicon Valley’s John Swapceinski evaluations, which developed as a tactic for during the 1999 dot-com boom, Rate My advancing popular political demands for stu- Professors (RMP) is the most popular professor dent empowerment during the 1960s and 1970s ratings site today, having survived competitors radical student movements. Yet, a system origi- such as PassCollege, ProfessorPerformance, nally based on challenging the inherently hier- Reviewum, and RatingsOnline and featuring far archical and sometimes abusive teacher–student more reviews and monthly visits than current relationship has, as with so much else, evolved rivals, including MyEdu (formerly Pick-A-Prof), into something quite different during the forty- Koofers, Uloop, and RateMyTeachers. With over year consolidation of the neoliberal university. 15 million reviews of 1.4 million professors, the The evolution from student-as-political-activist site allows students to research prospective to student-as-consumer-activist was neither instructors and rate their current teachers on 1 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

Making the Grade: Rating Professors

Sperber, Joshua
New Labor Forum , Volume 27 (1): 8 – Jan 1, 2018
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Brian Duffy, BrianDuffyCartoons.com, in The Hightower Lowdown, April 2014 744789 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796017744789New Labor ForumSperber research-article2017 New Labor Forum 2018, Vol. 27(1) 36 –43 Making the Grade: Copyright © 2017, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: Rating Professors sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796017744789 DOI: 10.1177/1095796017744789 journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Joshua Sperber Keywords capitalism, contingent workers, education, labor, consumption Created by Silicon Valley’s John Swapceinski evaluations, which developed as a tactic for during the 1999 dot-com boom, Rate My advancing popular political demands for stu- Professors (RMP) is the most popular professor dent empowerment during the 1960s and 1970s ratings site today, having survived competitors radical student movements. Yet, a system origi- such as PassCollege, ProfessorPerformance, nally based on challenging the inherently hier- Reviewum, and RatingsOnline and featuring far archical and sometimes abusive teacher–student more reviews and monthly visits than current relationship has, as with so much else, evolved rivals, including MyEdu (formerly Pick-A-Prof), into something quite different during the forty- Koofers, Uloop, and RateMyTeachers. With over year consolidation of the neoliberal university. 15 million reviews of 1.4 million professors, the The evolution from student-as-political-activist site allows students to research prospective to student-as-consumer-activist was neither instructors and rate their current teachers on 1

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