The Columbia Underground Listing of Professor Ability

code, projects

CULPA is a general instructor review site for the Columbia community. Students post reviews of professors and TAs, and instructors can (at least in theory) post responses. We currently boast more than 17,000 entries, in every department and almost every class the school has to offer.

CULPA was around long before I came to Columbia (it was started in 1997, so I suppose it was around before I even started middle school), but it’s changed a lot over the years. It started out as a huge chunk of custom PHP and was migrated to Ruby on Rails just before I came on board in early 2009.

Right after joining, I completely redesigned the site’s frontend, and worked with Ron Gejman to integrate syllabi, quotes and directory information into the website. In 2010, I added the Oracle, a tool to predict who will teach which sections of core classes.

http://www.culpa.info