Student's Bill of Rights

I saw this list of Student Rights at David Black's blog and thought perhaps students might like to see it.

Students have the right to:

1. expect interesting and intrinsically significant lectures

2. have profs who are personable and caring

3. be treated with respect and genuine Christian love

4. get out of class on time

5. have their work graded by their profs and not graders

Sorry, this is a tough one. With 150 Freshman in OT Survey and 75 Sophmores in Hermeneutics, this is impossible. If I did this, we would lose the other nine!

6. have ready access to their profs for advice and counsel (open door policy)

7. have their emails answered within a reasonable time (48 hour rule)

8. be graded on a strict scale and not on the curve

9. have their graded work returned to them in a timely fashion

10. be shown how to think and not just what to think

I hope my classes at CIU demonstrate a majority of these rights. Let's have a great semester together!

Anti-Evangelical Bigotry

Acton Institute (http://blog.acton.org/) (following an article in World Magazine) notes the anti-evangelical bigotry of many college professors. Read the whole thing, and be warned. Here's a quote:

"The analysis was conducted by Gary Tobin, president of the Institute for Jewish and Community Research. In the survey of 1,262 faculty members across 712 public colleges and universities, Evangelical Christians scored the highest unfavorable rating from faculty with a 53 percent, while Mormons placed second with 33 percent. Jews scored the lowest unfavorable score with 3 percent."