I’m currently enrolled in a joke of a class with a professor who assigns such petty busy work. I found out that the professor was actually arrested back in 2014 for forging a doctors prescription on a prescription drug. (They did it 4 times) Do most schools allow professors with a criminal record to work for them? It is his first year teaching at my school, and his rate my professor reviews are god awful at his former school he was at. Also, we’ve been in class for 4 weeks and he’s canceled class three times already, today just 45 minutes before class had even started. I am definitely not getting anything out of this class that I paid for and want to know if these are grounds to file a formal complaint against him.
How did you find out about this? Or is it just what you have heard?
Google search. Found the records myself
Can a professor still be hired even if they have been arrested in the past? Yes. Obviously. Is that grounds for complaining about your professor? No. Is his current behavior grounds for doing so? Very likely. Go ahead. Be very careful before you suggest that there might be a link between his past arrest and his current cancellation of classes. Be very careful. There are rules about libel and slander.
Thanks for the reply. I definitely was not implying that his former arrest had anything to do with his absence in class, but was more baffled that my school would hire a professor with a record.
My apologies for misreading you. Such an arrest might well disqualify someone from teaching at a public ElHi school depending on state law, but it’s not like a sex offense, and private schools would have their own rules regarding arrests for possesion. Heck, I’d venture to say that disqualifying every college professor with a drug arrest on his or her record (you did not even even say if there was a conviction) would have decimated the profession in the 60’s and 70’s. There is actually a movement afoot (it may even be a federal law or regulation by this time) barring employers from asking about arrests. Wonder why that is? Guess what section of the population gets arrested for drug possession and other minor offense more than any other. This is a very nuanced issue.
No worries, I was not completely clear in my original post. I have not read anything about him being convicted, so I would assume since there are no public records he was not. I read an article on a local news website where he was residing at the time, as well as saw the arrest records and mugshot on various public sites. I guess what bothers me the most is not that he has a record, but that his teaching skills are questionable. And then the fact that I did find out he has one, only made me doubt him more