Foley featured in new Princeton Review book, “The Best 300 Professors”
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Mike Foley, master lecturer of journalism in the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications, has been named one of the country’s best undergraduate teachers according to The Princeton Review.
The Massachusetts-based education services company – widely known for its test-prep courses, books, and student survey-based college rankings – profiles three UF professors in its new book, The Best 300 Professors (Random House / Princeton Review, $19.99), including Foley; Steven Noll, senior lecturer in the department of history and Sergei Shabanov, associate professor of mathematics.
Foley is one of only four journalism teachers in the country featured in the book. The state of Florida has 10 teachers featured.
“I’m flattered with the honor, but I’m more proud to be a part of this College,” Foley said. “I’m also really gratified by the comments from my current and former students. My Facebook has just exploded today. That’s really nice.”
Published April 3, 2012, The Best 300 Professors is a project that The Princeton Review developed with RateMyProfessors.com – the highest-trafficked college professor ratings site in the U.S. The book’s impressive roster of top teachers features professors in more than 60 fields ranging from Accounting to Neuroscience to Sport Management. They hail from 122 colleges and universities across the nation. A complete list of the professors in the book is accessible at www.princetonreview.com/best-professors.aspx.
The selection process took into account qualitative and quantitative data from survey findings and ratings collected by both The Princeton Review and RateMyProfessors.com. The professors featured in the book are a truly select group: from an initial list of 42,000 professors considered, the final group of “best” professors chosen constitutes less than .02% of the roughly 1.8 million post-secondary teachers instructing students at colleges and universities across the U.S.
Said Robert Franek, Princeton Review’s Senior VP / Publisher, “We developed this book as a tribute to the extraordinary dedication of America’s undergraduate college professors and the vitally important role they play in our culture, and our democracy. One cannot page through this book without having tremendous respect for the powerful ways they enrich their students’ lives, their colleges, and ultimately our future as a society. “
The Princeton Review is not affiliated with Princeton University and is not a magazine.
Posted: April 4, 2012
Category: College News
