I agree that faculty evaluations and surveys can be subjective in determining whether students are learning and if faculty are teaching material in a way that promotes learning. I too wonder if there is much value in these evaluations, especially if schools do not have policies against administering evaluations as extra credit. Likert scale responses do not provide the most thoughtful feedback and faculty should take time to do a mid-semester check-in with students.

Yes definitely, tax dollars because of the current bill, but absolutely it goes beyond that. I believe everyone should pay more attention to what is going on in the world, research and not-research. The problem of sometimes not understanding, or not caring to understand, is that we can wash our hands when something wrong happens and say that we had nothing to do with it, but without caring about it, we are already part of whatever ends up happening…. think went off a little bit on a tangent, but at the end we should try to reach out to everyone