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Good points. My first course teaching the Grad courses, I assigned more work and my exams were tough. I had several complaints from students of too much work and too tough exams. Still, they rated we fairly high on the scale. Over time, I tended to relax a bit. I think the students that I had in my earlier courses respected the rigorous effort, since I had more than one comments to me later that they really learned the subject well.

I think my effectiveness lessened when I was assigned to teach a couple of courses that were somewhat outside my specialty. I was still qualified to teach the courses, but did not have the passion for the subject matter. One course in particular was Business Ethics, and the course material tended to be more to the left. The text had articles from Michael Moore.

I know -- I've done the same. But I'm not going to anymore. I don't want to teach Michael Moore, or Chomsky. I don't want to base my theory on Edward Said... or Jung, for that matter. I want fallacy-free argumentation, and properly constructed essays. I don't want to pass on this $#** about women being good at journalling as opposed to logic. I won't accept shoddy work, and I won't give high marks to something that insults my intelligence by being all music and pictures and no content.