It's all about control.

I would rather work with someone who created software so disruptive that he/she got kicked out of Yale than someone who the establishment approves of.

It is amusing (to me at least) that Yale provided these data and did not think that some bright students would figure out a way to repackage it. If it is this important to Yale to control the way it's viewed, perhaps they should scrap course evaluations entirely. I'm fairly confident they will make decisions primarily on who gets tenure by amount of grant money brought in and number of articles published in peer-reviewed journals anyway.

Hmmm...interesting. I think there's some type of essential correlation between technology and liberty.

I mean some sort of fundamental, subconscious link in the minds of those at the forefront of the digital revolution - people capable of putting together complex information systems like this - with the spirit of freedom, productive innovation and "forward-thinkingness" that brings us all here to the Gulch.

Everywhere I look I see examples of people who understand the opportunities and value-creation possible to us in this Information Age, who are, naturally, hampered by the more primitive impulse of government regulation (or in this case, bureaucratic, lame-brain school-administration stuff).


The Lavabit founder guy is another example:
http://www.atlassociety.org/brc/blog/201...

I also feel like higher-ed and the federal government are in bed together. I haven't done enough research on this yet, but some of things I hear lead me to this intuitive hypothesis. Check out this nonsense from NPR when you get a sec:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014...

(Try not to get too mad when you read that last link)

Because they are anal retentive pinheads who cannot brook any encroachment, whatsoever, on their perceived domain. They will probably deny; because to permit, would put them on the wrong side of the argument in the beginning. Forbid it that an entrenched entity must admit error, especially Yalies.