Popular Teachers In Higher Education Analysis

From my experience, I would always look for the popular teachers at my college. Even though the specific teacher I wanted classes was already filled, I would still wait another semester to enroll into that class. Other teachers were not as popular, but I still preferred to wait until the popular teachers were available. The ‘Business Model’ Is the Wrong Model article talks about how certain students are demand for accountability in higher education. Peter Katopes stated that the education model is more appropriate than the business model when teaching. He believes that the business model is only for a fixed purpose which is to generate a profit. He also believes that the business model is faulty because it creates dangerous expectations for …show more content…
In higher education the article Peter Katopes mention that the business model eliminates other worthy academics programs because it was not as popular as other programs. Since the business model focuses on the student’s satisfaction and not the teachers teaching abilities it gives the students more power on their opinions of the teacher. For example, a teacher may be a good teacher at teaching in class but since the student does not pay attention and failed, the student may give a poor evaluation about the teacher. This would not be fair to the teacher because it was not the teacher’s fault it was the students for not paying attention in class when they are supposed to be …show more content…
He states how the universities run off of a “Business Model”. That is because a University is a business, it is a business which focuses on raising and preparing the next generation going into the work force. Due to this colleges and universities need to have evaluations of their students, primarily because the Dean of the college or university is not omnipresent. He or she cannot be in every classroom every day all the time. With the student evaluations, the students already paid to get into the university. It was not given to them, like it is in other countries. The students paid to attend the college or university, they need and should know which professors would help them achieve their goals according to their way of learning. This is why student evaluations are important, it shows which professors are underachieving and which are performing exponentially. Although there is an ever present threat of a student writing a bad review, if the majority of the class is writing great reviews, it will show if that student was actually slacking in the class. The student that attend Universities and colleges pay to attend, they deserve to have some accommodations, especially if they will be literally living there the majority of the year, such as a game room, food that is actually good instead of High School cafeteria food. They pay for all of it, the game room, recreational centers is paid for and added into their tuition. The “huate