<p>i attend the university of north carolina at pembroke and i have a real ******* of an instructor. i’ve taken several classes with him, but i’ll just skip the specifics and say that he bullies and uses his other instructor friends to harrass students who make any complaints against him or talk to university counselors about his miscondunct.it basically come down to sociological harassment. i feel that certian instructors have banded together against students who try to do something about the archain and unprofessional way these instructors like to operate. the university of north carolina at pembroke is a small, often over-looked university that i think has a largely inept and unqualified faculty. i want to find out if the instructor really has the requirements to be a professor in the north carolina university system. i’ve been reading alot about the recent discoveries of high profile deans and professors who turned out to have bogus degrees (ex. Marilee Jones, Dean of Admissions at MIT). so, what are the qualifications for being a professor at a north carolina university system college and how do i check the credentials of my professor?</p>
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If the bullying and harrassment is significant enough that it might constitute a crime, I would go straight to the police. A university will almost always back their faculty over a student in an internal review process (their reputation is on the line, after all) so I’d bypass the university and turn directly to law enforcement.</p>
<p>If your instructor “only” does a bad job teaching, there is not much you can do. Of course your professor will defend himself with any means available against a student who’s determined on getting him fired. The harder you will fight, the more you will hurt yourself. (For example, you might need letters of recommendations for a graduate school application one day…)</p>
<p>If you find most of your instructors “inept and unqualified”, protest with your wallet: transfer to a university with better instructors. Universities are businesses. If you keep buying their product, you are essentially saying that their services meet your needs. (And let’s be honest: there’s a limited supply of good college instructors. UNCP is not prestigious enough and probably also doesn’t pay enough to attract the better guys. Would you be willing to pay an extra $10K a year in tuition so that your university can pay a more competitive salary to its faculty?) </p>
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The Provost’s Office can tell you. Judging from their academic employment opportunities page, probably the only formal requirements are that instructors need a Master’s degree and tenure-track professors a PhD.</p>
<p>i see what you mean about the instructors protecting themselves and the university, but i feel the ones i’m dealing with are far too aggressive and premptive in harassing students who start pointing out the problems with the university and who show dissatisfaction with the instructors. and i think the professor i’m mainly refering to just enjoys messing with students and ruining their proformance and futures by making lectures a hostile environment because he knows we cant really do anything about it. i wish there was someone who could do something about this. don’t students have rights too? isn’t there a code of conduct we can hold instructors agaisnt?</p>