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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Prof here.  In my discipline, I would say quality of instruction has improved at a lot of Top-50 schools.  Tenure requirements used to almost ignore teaching, but in my experience it is now treated as a serious consideration.  In addition, some tenured/tenure track faculty have been replaced by teaching professors-- academics will lament this because it reduces a school's research, but such faculty are hired/evaluated/promoted solely on teaching, so they also take it seriously.  When I started my career, there was literally no training or consideration related to teaching when we taught PhD students, and now we essentially don't let them go on the academic job market until their teaching evaluations have hit a reasonable threshold.  So I think teaching has become significantly stronger over time.[/quote]

Thanks for sharing this. It makes sense. Given the significantly greater rate at which students communicate with one another these days, you can't hide dissatisfaction with teaching quality for long. It behooves colleges to do what they can to make sure their students are happy with their instructors, lest they get a reputation that will lose them some of the students they want most.[/quote]

Non-tenured profs hoping to ever gain one of the elusive tenure posts need to ensure they receive positive survey feedback from students because universities now take this anonymous student feedback quite seriously.  This is leading to grade inflation as professors are forced to make a choice between keeping the kids happy or risking damage to their own careers.  This all occurs in the perfect storm of increased reliance on adjuncts and fewer tenure track posts in general.  [/quote]

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