MyEdu
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MyEdu is a private company founded in 2008 and headquartered in Austin, Texas
, United States
. MyEdu works by collecting data from college students, as well as official academic data from universities, to identify patterns that lead to unexpected costs. MyEdu also provides interactive web applications to aid those seeking a college degree, including services that focus on college decision making, such as degree planning & requirements, class schedules, courses, and professors. These services concentrate on helping students organize their academics. In fact myedu.com allows students to pick the teachers who give the highest grades
The investment agreement designates MyEdu as "a UT System official" with permission to access student records.
Critics have pointed out that the UT decision bypassed vetting by the university's investment advisers.
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
, United States
United States
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. MyEdu works by collecting data from college students, as well as official academic data from universities, to identify patterns that lead to unexpected costs. MyEdu also provides interactive web applications to aid those seeking a college degree, including services that focus on college decision making, such as degree planning & requirements, class schedules, courses, and professors. These services concentrate on helping students organize their academics. In fact myedu.com allows students to pick the teachers who give the highest grades
History
MyEdu was founded in 2008 by Michael Crosno, Chris Chilek and John Cunningham. The company, formerly known as Pick-A-Prof, officially changed its name to MyEdu in the summer of 2009.University of Texas connection
On October 18, 2011 the UT System announced a $10 million investment in MyEdu. It admitted the personal connection between MyEdu and the UT System. The co-founder of MyEdu, John Cunningham, is the son of William Cunningham, who is a former UT System chancellor, former UT-Austin president and current faculty member at the McCombs School of Business. William Cunningham has had a financial stake in MyEdu.The investment agreement designates MyEdu as "a UT System official" with permission to access student records.
Critics have pointed out that the UT decision bypassed vetting by the university's investment advisers.
Spam
MyEdu is reported by academic institutions to have scraped college websites for student e-mail addresses. The company than proceeds to send unsolicited mail to these students and creates accounts for them on the MyEdu site without permission.See also
- HeyCampus.com – Rate My Course
- RateMyTeachersRateMyTeachersRateMyTeachers, abbreviated as RMT, is a controversial review site used to rate elementary and secondary school teachers' performance . Participants give numerical ratings on a scale of 1 to 5 in four different categories to their current or former elementary and secondary school teachers...
– ratings for high school teachers - Rate Your StudentsRate Your StudentsRate Your Students was a weblog that ran from November 2005 to June 2010. It was started by a "tenured humanities professor from the South," but was run for most of its five years by a rotating group of anonymous academics...
– a blog created as a reaction to RateMyProfessors - Schedulizer – course schedule
- MyFaveTeacher.com – Indian Colleges