Implications of Race and Racism in Student Evaluations of Teaching

Implications of Race and Racism in Student Evaluations of Teaching argues that, disaggregated by race, faculty of color overwhelmingly receive poorer student evaluations of teaching when compared to their white counterparts. This practice complicates racial diversity efforts given that many institutions use SETs to make promotion and salary decisions.

Implications of Race and Racism in Student Evaluations of Teaching: The Hate U Give highlights practices in higher education such as using student evaluations of teaching to inform merit increases, contract renewals, and promotion and tenure decisions. The collection deconstructs student course feedback to reveal implications of race and racism inherent in student responses mirroring learned behavior situated within the social-political context of US culture and K12 schools. Learned behavior fostering racial hate given to students informing and shaping classroom experiences with BIPOC faculty. To this end, the work speaks to systemic racial inequity in higher education learning spaces and possibilities of reimagining student evaluations as a cry for a more just and equitable society.

Foreword

H. Rich Milner

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Implications Of Race And Racism In Student Evaluations Of Teaching: An Introduction

LaVada U. Taylor

Chapter 1: Their Voices Must Be Heard

LaVada U. Taylor

Chapter 2: Dismantling the Architecture of Good Teaching

Donyell Roseboro

Chapter 3: (Be) Rate My Professor Dot.Com: Cautionary Tales from the Curious World of Student Evaluations

Hilton Kelly, Eleanor Branch, and Stacey Coleman

Chapter 4: The Paradox: Wonderful Evals in the Face of Teaching Anti-Racism and Multicultural Education

Ramon Vasquez

Chapter 5: Journey to Critical Whiteness in Higher Education

Yvette Freter

Chapter 6: Keeping It 100: Speaking Black Truth to White Power

Jonathan Lightfoot

Chapter 7: Desuperhumanizing Whiteness

Björn Freter