Via Quiddity, academics fret about attractive professors garnering better student evaluations. Well, beauty is power in any endeavor these days…so I’d be surprised if academia were any different. Still, after three hours of lecture a week over the course of a term, I’d think many students’ evaluations would bypass professorial sex appeal in favor of the more central question: Was the class interesting?
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No way, Murph. I took some boring science GE at UCLA and the ONLY way I got through the course was that the prof was some hot, recent Ph.D. in the Astronomy department. For those of us in the course who didn’t care about the topic, she was really, really nice to look at, and she got a kick-ass eval from me at the end of the course. I’m here to tell you that there’s a big difference in the amount of attention that Carl Sagan can garner from a distracted and disinterested young man, and the level of attention that my former Astro prof got from me.