No matter what you think the cost of a Columbia education or license should be, there really is some truth to Wendy's assertion that professors should be hired and retained based on their ability to teach. I've had a total of two, maybe three professors who know how to teach after having spent about $100K so far. If you're in the same boat as me, we SHOULD demand eight such professors.

Those evaluation forms we fill out are such a huge waste of time - no one actually seem to act on them. They give us this false sense of power and participation, especially our 1L year. How about holding professors accountable for consistently bad ratings? Like, for example, how about putting them on probation or firing them? In any other scenario, if you don't do your job right, you don't, and probably shouldn't last very long there.

-- KrishnaSutaria - 13 Mar 2010