There is a write up on our famed EMU History professor Robert Citino, ”the Muhammad Ali of profs, the queen of the academic parade, the fairy at the top of the academic tree,” in The Guardian:
“Who’s the hottest teacher in the US?”
“The MTV/RMP poll is less reliable than weather forecasting with seaweed … though, it does furnish food for thought. And uncomfortable thought.What it reveals to me is that the level of student satisfaction is higher the lower you go down the prestige scale. … It could be the students in those less classy places are less demanding, or humbler. It could be the fees aren’t so vexatiously high in these less famous places, giving a better sense of value for money.
But the real reason, I suspect, is that those students are indeed getting a better classroom experience. … If you go to EMU, Prof Citino will be there a few feet away; he’ll know your name; he’ll be accessible during his office hours (and at other times); and you’ll remember what he taught you the rest of your life. So too with Professors Disavino or Schray. They are, as Americans like to say, there for you. Professor Worldfamous at the University of Ivory Tower probably isn’t.”
This is certainly some good international press for us, if a tad satirical.
