| Madison, Wisconsin | USAWeb site gives students a chance to rate their teachers Adds another, "He's like Santa Claus, only he teaches calculus." Other postings offer sage observations like, "She sucks at life." ANDERSON,MARK Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering PHD 1998 Univ of Wisconsin-Madison. Another shares a formula for Beck's performance: "Here's some math for you: Beck = Bad." He says it allows students to tailor their education to their own needs. One student says she's "the only professor who has kept me awake at 9:30 in the morning." Biography . And, Nagle notes, "A lot of professors use the site to gauge how they're doing. Through her role as an undergraduate adviser, Katele has spoken with several advisees who told her they often use the site to research professors. Contact Us. In fact, six of the 10 lowest-rated UW-Madison professors are from the math department, lending credence to this claim. Department of Economics William H. Sewell Social Science Building 1180 Observatory Drive Another anoints her "by far the very best professor I have had." "Students may react against me or any other teacher quite as much for [not wanting to be in a class] than for how I, as an individual, teach," he says, noting that math is an especially sticky subject. marc.kleijwegt@wisc.edu. While her "Easiness" rank is tougher than some students may desire, Katele is called "cool," "helpful" and "responsive."
My specializations are Social History; Epigraphy; The Ancient Novel; The Cities and Communities of Roman Italy and the Western Provinces. Bob Wilson, another prominent member of the math department, agrees. View David Johnson’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Anatole Beck, a long-tenured professor in the department of mathematics, is among those who bear the brunt of students' freedom of speech. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover David’s connections and jobs at similar companies. ANDERSON,DAVID Professor Electrical & Computer Engr PHD 1984 Univ of Wisconsin-Madison. Irene Katele finds it useful.
Burstyn, Judith N. burstyn@chem.wisc.edu: Professor/Chair : 5327 : Judith: 608-262-0328 Chair: 608-262-8005 Katele has the good fortune of being highly rated. Other professors aren't so lucky. A blue frown appears when a student has had a less-than-stellar experience.
For every "best teacher ever," there are many more comments that were once scrawled in dorm bathrooms. ANDERSON,LORI Assistant Professor Nursing PHD 2006 Univ of Wisconsin-Madison. It's not RateMyProfessors versus the education system. "It tends to be an extreme thing," he says. Several postings on "It is impressive how horrible he teaches, tests, and basically inflicts damage to your mathematical understanding," one student declares. Math at the college level requires students to do much more than memorize formulas and theorems. Beck says the problem is that many of his students are fresh out of high school and poorly prepared for classes that stress critical thinking. Wilson admits the rows of smiley faces under his name are nice to see. "There is a difference," he says, "between the people who take my courses because they are interested in actually learning the material, and those who are not interested but required to do so." Another says a class was so bad he or she (the postings are anonymous) "wanted to gouge my eyes out with a spoon." The site contains reviews for 1,582 UW-Madison professors, lecturers and teaching assistants, and Katele is tied for first place among those with 20 or more reviews. And Katele welcomes feedback of all kinds. A yellow smiley-face icon tells her she's doing a good job.
The title of “professor” at UW-Madison has long been associated with the opportunity to gain tenure. ANDERSON,PAUL A Professor … As she sees it, "To this day, I can tell you which professors we thought were good and which were bad," Ketele says. When was the last time you heard someone say, 'Oh I could never read'?" Fields: Labor Economics, Health Economics, Public EconomicsFields: Macroeconomics, Growth and Development, MatchingFields: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Consumer FinanceProfessor, William Sellery Trukenbrod Chair in FinanceFields: Microeconomic Theory, Industrial OrganizationProfessor, Mary Claire Aschenbrener Phipps ProfessorProfessor, Mary Claire Aschenbrener Phipps Distinguished ChairProfessor, Laurits R. Christensen Distinguished ChairProfessor, Juli Plant Grainger Distinguished Chair Fields: Macroeconomics, Public Finance, International Economics, Financial EconomicsFields: Labor Economics, Macroeconomics, MicroeconomicsFields: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Applied EconometricsFields: Development Economics and International TradeFields: Microeconomic Theory, Industrial OrganizationFields: Microeconomic Theory, Market Design, FinanceUniversity Provost and Nellie June Gray Professor of Economic PolicyDepartment Chair, Professor, Todd E. & Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished ChairProfessor, Paul T. Heyne Distinguished Chair in Economics; Richard A. Meese Chair in Applied EconometricsFields: Industrial Organization, Applied MicroeconomicsFields: Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Public EconomicsFields: Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics, Education and Demographic Economics