The Greensboro software company serves law enforcement, fire departments and emergency medical dispatchers across the country. To find out which teachers to stick with and which ones to avoid at Wake Forest University, students can go to the Web and see what their classmates think. Virtual Ratings is one of several commercial sites that provide students a way to critique their professors. In some cases, opinions vary widely about the same professor. Some students see the popularity of the site as a sign that Wake Forest should establish its own site for professor and course evaluations, as some other universities have done.
Administrators say they have no plans to put faculty evaluations online.
Dean Paul Escott says the idea may be up for discussion later, but there are no plans to act right now. Restrictions on water use are now a lot tighter in the city of Concord. City officials today are making water restrictions mandatory, and they're pointing to the low lake levels at all three Concord water sources. Lake Howell is about eight feet below full. Lake Concord is down more than five feet and Lake Fisher is nearly seven feet below normal.