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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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 [b]it’s becoming difficult to focus on the lessons[/b]. Should I talk to him? Talk to administration? Or just leave it alone? [/quote]

Can you, at the end of the semester, send a letter to the department chair, saying that his emphasis on politics detracted from the subject matter he was supposed to teach? You're taking an economics class, after all, not a political science class. And your comment would apply just as much to a professor who was supposed to be teaching economics but instead spent all of his time talking about how Bernie Sanders's emphasis on economic factors over everything else in 2016 was correct and how AOC should be the next speaker of the House tomorrow.[/quote]

OMG don't do this. The department chair will laugh at this over a beer with his colleague. Just FYI, Department Chairs in universities are typically rotational positions among tenured faculty. The Department chair is not this professor's superior. If you want to go this route, send it to the Dean of Academics or some other such person (though that won't matter either, honestly.)

The best thing to do if you want to effect change here is to speak directly to the professor on the evaluation. Explain that you enjoyed learning from him but found his unnecessary injections of partisan political opinions distracting from the core content. If he cares about that, he'll adjust. If he doesn't, he won't. But at least you've said it.[/quote]

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