"Teaching ability is certainly not a primary consideration. It's not that we wouldn't hire someone known to be a teacher," Feldman says.
"One just concentrated on doing the best possible research is probably not going to be a very good teacher," Feldman adds.
Vaux is an outspoken critic of the CUE Guide's influence over a professors' reputation.
"The basic scheme with tenure appears to be that teaching performance as reflected in enrollments, CUE ratings, etc. can be held against you, not for you," Vaux writes in an e-mail.
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Filling out the CUE Guide questionaire quickly may result in an early end to a section for students, but professors say they value student feedback.
"This is a relatively new thing American higher education, and about 34 years ago, it didn't exist at all," Thernstrom says. "It's better than a totally subjective questionnaire.[The CUE] has scientific merit."
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