We’ve already complained plenty about how annoying it is to receive endless emails telling us to fill out course evaluations and how inefficient the system is. We’ve even proposed solutions to improve the system — solutions that the administration, whether intentionally or unintentionally, has turned deaf ears to.
Well here we are again, this time with a proposal that we’re serious about: Student evaluations and comments should be published online to create a site where students can see what other students have said about USC classes and professors. The demand is definitely there — a huge population of students already use sites like RateMyProfessor and myEdu.com to figure out which classes to take and which professors should be avoided. By creating a forum for USC, students would be able to better maximize their own educational experience.
Furthermore, publishing evaluations online would provide further incentive for students to complete them in the first place. Rather than just being sent off to some unknown administrator to read, students would be able to know for sure that their voices would be heard and used to benefit future students as well.
Vice Provost Helen Doerpinghaus said that she’s not opposed to the idea, but she hadn’t heard of it before. Student Body Vice President Ryan Bailey campaigned on this issue this year, so the idea has definitely been out there.
Hopefully, USC will take our request seriously and act on it this time around. Many other universities have already had an internal system like this one successfully implemented for a while now. It’s time for us to catch up.
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