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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If smart kids are failing at a high rate you are not doing your job as a professor.

Sorry the free ride for average white makes is over. Welcome to the world the rest of us have to live in. Either do your job or get fired.[/quote]

Why doesn’t this apply to the students? Their job is to study. It’s not the job of a college professor to pass students who won’t (or can’t) learn the material. “Meeting your students where they are” ends in high school. If you can’t do university level work, you shouldn’t be in a university. Unfortunately it seems “meeting the students where they are” in HS means we have an increasing number of kids who can’t do the work. The answer is not to dumb down the university. Maybe community college can fill the gap, but there are plenty of professions who need workers that don’t have college degrees. [/quote]

Because if you have a problem with many you are the problem.

It’s organic chem not creative writing. Either your tests make sense or not[b]. His test didn’t make sense and questions were written badly.[/b]

There are certain classes like calculus, chem, physics, … you either teach it or you don’t, tests are not subjective. It’s pedestrian to claim these classes are different at different institutions.

[b]He wrote badly worded tests to prove he was hard [/b]sand he got caught not going his job, bye Felicia.[/quote]

We’re you in his class? How do you know this? It was a minority of students who complained, and other students weighed in to defend him. As pp said, the professor taught at Princeton for decades and was “revered.” He literally wrote the textbook and created the modern method of teaching organic chemistry. Do you have evidence that he purposely made his tests confusing after years of teaching at NYU? [/quote]

DP.  He retired from a tenured position at Princeton about 10 years ago and then went to NYU on a year-to-year contract to teach a reduced schedule.  And then right around the same time he felt students suddenly changed and just weren’t as bright and weren’t as willing to work hard.  It is entirely possible that, in reality, he was slowing down cognitively as he got older, he wasn’t as sharp, and his teaching and test writing weren’t what they used to be.  It makes sense since he perceived a shift in students right around the time he seemingly decided he couldn’t carry the load of a tenured professor anymore.  I suspect it did not come out of the blue that his contract was non-renewed, and that NYU had been trying to counsel him through it for years because his name still carried prestige. [/quote]

Simple, life past him by.[/quote]

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