Tuesday Lecture Notes

The tenure and promotion guide is available at VPAA.  Read it sometime.

· Never should your evaluation be a marker of a teacher’s popularity.  Rather, the evaluation should reflect “teaching effectiveness and creativity.”  
· Be very specific with complaints or complements.  For instance, never write “she sucked” or “She’s a great teacher.”
· You can score big points by saying that your teacher’s instruction helped you do well on a standardized test, such as the GRE, the GMAT, the MCAT, or the LSAT.  (Or the opposite.)
· You can score big points by attributing your own accomplishments to the teacher’s instruction. (As a direct result of incorporating Prof. Fink’s advice into my journalism work, I received a prize for news writing.)
· Other good complements: Teacher’s abilities to arouse student interest and the teacher’s ability to stimulate work and achievement.  
· If you really want to stick your teacher, write on the form that the teacher was so ineffective, boring, and uninformed of the topic that you are going to change you major.    
· The teaching evaluation usually asks for your grades and major…why?  


Taxi Cabs.

I’ve received a number of complaints about taxi service in Athens lately.  Specifically, students have complained that the cab services charges arbitrarily, and that the cab services leave their phones off the hook at night.

Arbitrarily:  People have told me that the cab companies charge women and men different prices for the same ride.  Also, they supposedly charge mixed groups of men and women more than single-sex groups.

Phones off the hook: This way, they don’t have to provide 24-hour service, as required by law.  But, some carry cell phones that are reachable.

1. By law, the driver must show you his fee schedule, if you ask.
2. By law, the driver must give you a receipt, if you ask.
3. You may ask the dispatcher to give you a price before you’re picked up.
4. By law, the cab companies must operate 24 hours a day.  If you suspect that the cab service is deliberately not answering the phone, write down the exact time you called.  The police will go to the taxi company, and check their records.  (The A-CC contact on this is: SGT Paul 613-3330 x260.)