Some professors want to teach the way they have for many years and that just doesn't work anymore. Especially when they mix the old and new ways. Like it or not, students are taught to learn certain ways now that don't work with the old school. Things are streamlined differently and sometimes older cats don't adjust.
I have had a couple of professors that couldn't transition, and the whole class suffered because of it. The ones that are arrogant about it are even worse. Had a stats professor that openly admitted that he had his own order of operations that was based in no convention other than his own preference, and if you didn't follow it, fuck you. He is a prick and I am glad he doesn't teach the lower class anymore.
That shit doesn't work anymore. And anyone wanting to make some point about that being how a boss might be, fuck off, students pay to go to school, not the other way around. The shit is already filled with enough BS that no student needs to be dicked around by a professor that wants you to read between the lines while every other instructor is spelling the course out point-blank.
Award winning researcher doesn't mean good teacher. I have a professor right now that is a venerable rock-star in his field. He mumble-farts his way through a sleeping class, doesn't communicate assignments well, and is surprised students are confused about homework that is located some where in a book we have no assignments attached too.
Fuck this OChem professor. If he got fired a being an unreasonable cunt, than good. Too many other good professors being canned for their opinions.
I'd guess, based on the article, that this teacher rocks, because he has years of student and institutional awards to prove it.
82 students out of 350 complained that he was too hard. That's 23%.
Given the likelihood that the whiny students solicited the entire class for their petition, that means 77% of the students thought that the the teacher was just fine, and refused to sign the petition.
Coincidentally, that number, 23%, is close to the percentage of FOREIGN students that attend NYU, and, being ineligible for federal grants, pay full price to attend.
The Dean's immediate cowtowing to the 23% suggests that these were either diversity admits, or they were primarily the full-tuition-paying foreign students, and he was afraid of either cancel-culture backlash in NYC, OR he was afraid of losing the income foreign students provide (again, American students never pay full tuition.)
Liberal Universities are, at their adminstrative core, for-profit businesses exploiting a tax-free status to enrich their administrators and tenured staff by overcharging, underdelivering, and stealing patents created by their qualified students.
Administrstively, almost everything else is secondary to that.....except diversity/equity (esp in NYC)
This guy taught for the love of teaching, not for the cash. That's why he was teaching at NYU, untenured, after retiring from Princeton.
He is, without a doubt, a fabulous teacher.
The 23% are incompetent, unqualified, entitled little children.
The fact that the NYTimes reported this event makes me think that these were diversity admit students.
Maybe I'm wrong then, that's what I get for not reading the article and drunk posting my own projections.
Maybe only drunk post when you're drinking whiskey. Tequila drunk posts are the fat girls of the comment world.
See, the Critical Drinker recommends whisky. https://youtu.be/416vFlu595Q
He will be replaced by a foreigner with a bad accent that no one knows what the hell he is talking about. Muh diversity
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