Here at My Colleges and Careers, we don’t pretend to be above silly rankings like Rate My Professor’s Top 50 Hottest Professors list. We embrace and accept people who embrace and accept entertaining things. While a professor’s ability to teach and inspire will always be 
the the bread and butter that our educational system survives on, sometimes a little dessert is ok.
We now present to you (with a cherry on top) an up close and personal interview with one of the country’s hottest educators: Professor Dacia Charlesworth, Associate Professor in the Department of Communications at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.
My Colleges and Careers: What was your initial reaction upon learning you were ranked as one of the nation’s “Hottest Professors?”
Professor Charlesworth: I laughed. I joke that since I was 1st runner-up for homecoming queen this title has replaced all the feeling of inadequacy I once had. Seriously though, I support RMP and encourage my students to leave their comments. Some faculty don’t like RMP and feel that since there’s no way to actually verify if students have completed one of your classes the site is invalid. I note that there are measures faculty can take if they think a comment is unfair or submitted by someone who clearly wasn’t a student (e.g., one of my friends flagged a rude comment by a student who’d written that he’d taken her for a class the university didn’t even offer; RMP removed the comment). RMP is one way for students to learn about professor’s teaching styles; I always ask my students to be very clear about rating and referencing my expectations and grading standards since I’m very rigorous and want potential students to know what to expect in my classes.