Professor pushing politics. Report or leave it alone?

[Anonymous]

No matter whether conservative or liberal, I wait until the end of the semester and then note any excessive political ranting on professors evaluations.

The professors and the university takes those seriously. Professors are allowed to have their opinions, but they also need to teach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you at George Mason?

That entire department is funded by the Koch Brothers. They are paid to repeat that drivel ad nauseam.

Why are you lying?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In an MBA program, and as you likely know, businesspeople skew conservative. Fine. I’m taking an economics class, and my professor uses every opportunity to denigrate economic controls, government regulations, etc. He’s described Bernie Sanders as sympathetic to assassins and dismissed the Green New Deal as absurd (which it may be), and of AOC he questions the “wisdom and foresight” of a “29-year-old whose previous work experience was bartending.”

I think it’s one thing to foster healthy, fair debate on issues, but he’s so anti-liberal and frankly anti-government it’s becoming difficult to focus on the lessons. Should I talk to him? Talk to administration? Or just leave it alone?

I’m not political, so this ain’t coming from a partisan place, but I’m just curious if you would have the same reaction if
The professor were anti-conservative.

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry it's hard for you to hear opposing thought.

[Anonymous]

Put it in his evaluation, Rate My Professor, and wherever else you can give feedback once the term is over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Put it in his evaluation, Rate My Professor, and wherever else you can give feedback once the term is over.

Me again. Also, take notes of specific dates and things he says, and put them into your evaluations and maybe an anonymous letter to the department.

[Anonymous]

My law school professors used to make disparaging remarks about Republican politicians and organizations on a daily basis. They were the butt of all jokes, and most of the class thought they were hilarious. But no one ever complained.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My law school professors used to make disparaging remarks about Republican politicians and organizations on a daily basis. They were the butt of all jokes, and most of the class thought they were hilarious. But no one ever complained.

Amy Waxman, law professor at U of Pennsylvania, has consistently denigrated African-Americans as substandard yet she keeps her job. However, she is no longer teaching a required class due to concerns about grading of non-white students. Waxman has kept her job but with much protest.

I guarantee, PP, nobody is finding this hilarious.

https://www.phillytrib.com/news/local_news/penn-law-prof-u-s-will-be-better-off-with/article_df454ec3-2f13-5bd6-9936-6e56a2025c83.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My law school professors used to make disparaging remarks about Republican politicians and organizations on a daily basis. They were the butt of all jokes, and most of the class thought they were hilarious. But no one ever complained.

Amy Waxman, law professor at U of Pennsylvania, has consistently denigrated African-Americans as substandard yet she keeps her job. However, she is no longer teaching a required class due to concerns about grading of non-white students. Waxman has kept her job but with much protest.

I guarantee, PP, nobody is finding this hilarious.

https://www.phillytrib.com/news/local_news/penn-law-prof-u-s-will-be-better-off-with/article_df454ec3-2f13-5bd6-9936-6e56a2025c83.html

Correction: Amy Wax, not Waxman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My law school professors used to make disparaging remarks about Republican politicians and organizations on a daily basis. They were the butt of all jokes, and most of the class thought they were hilarious. But no one ever complained.

Amy Waxman, law professor at U of Pennsylvania, has consistently denigrated African-Americans as substandard yet she keeps her job. However, she is no longer teaching a required class due to concerns about grading of non-white students. Waxman has kept her job but with much protest.

I guarantee, PP, nobody is finding this hilarious.

https://www.phillytrib.com/news/local_news/penn-law-prof-u-s-will-be-better-off-with/article_df454ec3-2f13-5bd6-9936-6e56a2025c83.html

Correction: Amy Wax, not Waxman.

The Penn student newspaper's perspective.

https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/07/racism-amy-wax-penn-law-upenn-philadelphia

[Anonymous]

This is why tenure exists. Professors are supposed to have political opinions.

[Anonymous]

So you said a bunch of things that might be annoying, but nothing that necessarily affects the content of the course, or the economics fundamentals (which you can teach regardless).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why tenure exists. Professors are supposed to have political opinions.

No. Tenure is to protect them from being fired for their academic work, not to give them a free pass to spout off their political opinions in class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Put it in his evaluation, Rate My Professor, and wherever else you can give feedback once the term is over.

Me again. Also, take notes of specific dates and things he says, and put them into your evaluations and maybe an anonymous letter to the department.

The idea that professors should now have to fear that people will send anonymous letters to their supervisors about their work is crazy. This sounds like something straight out of China's cultural revolution. I'd like to know what kind of fascist is promoting this particular strategy. Lovely.

[Anonymous]

OP had already said, back on page 2, that they will mention this in their evaluation at the end of the course in two weeks.

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