Society for A Return to Academic Standards

Objective:

Provide information and support for a return to academic standards in higher education. The widespread use of the student evaluation of teaching (SET) data as a control device has caused grade inflation and course work devaluation. SFRTAS encourages research on faculty pander pollution, dysfunctional aspects of SETs, misuse of SET data by administrators, dishonesty of students on SETs, invalidity of SET information, denial of due process from use of SET, defamation, impression management, post-tenure reviews, disappearing tenure, and reasons for grade inflation.

.  Point of View Letter to Ann Landers Responses to Ann Landers Student Dishonesty: The Inventory Low Marks for Top Teachers Dysfunctional Behavior Article Higher Grades = Higher Evaluations State Legislators Must Act Promptly Baker's Dozen Debating Arguments Evolution of Teaching Business Evolution of Teaching Math Devalued Diplomas Due Process/Defamation Issues The Most Docile Profession Your Faculty Senate at Work Suggested Faculty Senate Proposals More Ammunition False Advertising A Crude Approach for Correcting for Grading Bias in Higher Education Broccoli and Cotton Candy Tenured Weasels Disappearance of Tenure Witch hunt                                                        Student-Directed Lawsuits Senator Ratliff's Modest Proposal                     What's in a Name ? Some Humor About Student Evaluations          Attacks on Tenure Obstacles and Hope                                        Steps to Do Grading Policy                                                Public Higher Education and Productivity Generation X Goes to College                         Open Letter to the American Accounting
                                                                        Association Guerrilla Teaching Tactics                              Migrant Labor Other Sources                                                Judge Backs Professors Correspondence                                            Specific Numerical Guidelines Proving Their Mettle                                      Students Who Don't Study Tenure Remains Vital to Freedom                  FAST Fire at Will U.                                                We Talk about Tenure Little Rock Chapter (Grade Inflation)     Flunking the Test...    SAVE National Association of Scholars Students With Less Class Teachers Must Dance to Students' Tune Abolish Tenure ? Teaching or Cheating? Cheating Students? Grandfather Education Don't Be Politically Incorrect and Hard Nothing Matters Adprima Other viewpoints SETS Are Too Costly Deconstructing an Evaluation Form  Let Me Edutain You  The Deflated College Degree  IDEA : Bias Higher Than Previously Said  The Validity of Student Ratings Interpretations 

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Last Updated: February 14, 1999