When students sign up for college courses, they are not only responding to the catalogue course description. They know that the background and expertise of the instructor plays a part in the educational experience. It may be true that, as Penn State President Graham Spanier told the Philadelphia Inquirer, “There’s no national test that Penn State Students could take that’s going to help us educate them better or make us more accountable.” Nonetheless, professors nationwide have said some very revealing things, and if you take a class schedule, broken down by departments or subjects, and insert them accordingly, you get...