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Berkeley prof wants to nix student evals after white male profs score higher

Marissa Gentry
Indiana Campus Correspondent
@mgentzzz
on Nov 27, 2018 at 5:16 PM EDT


* UC Berkeley history professor Brian DeLay claimed that students unfairly rated female and racial minority professors on evaluations, citing a study co-authored by a colleague.

* He suggested that schools stop using student evaluations for hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions.

A University of California, Berkeley professor suggested scrapping end-of-semester student evaluations for hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions after claiming that the grades and evaluations are biased against female instructors and people of color.

“Over the next few weeks, students will get the chance to evaluate their professors and TAs. They’re going to get it wrong,” UC Berkeley history professor Brian DeLaytweeted on Sunday. “They’ll be harder on women and people of color than on white men. Tenured white male faculty, in particular, should help their students understand this.”

“In the meantime, tenured faculty - especially tenured white men - should explain this stuff to our students..."
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less than 50%

Gotta be fair to those who are less than those evil white males....