Professor fails entire class

HisGraceFillsMe
Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:01:22 +0000

The professor had to know that as soon as one student (who was academically passing) said something, this would be overturned. You can’t work on a college campus for too long without at least becoming aware of the power of the student voice, let alone the power of politics and potential liability. This opens the school up to a huge amount of liability had they upheld the grades–usually courts don’t want to touch cases related to grades, but still an issue that no school wants to deal with.

I think it’s time for this professor to step away. These are things that professors are dealing with in other places fairly frequently–not that it’s acceptable, but unfortunately students not always behaving is a reality. I’m not a faculty member, but I’ve been involved with everything mentioned and worse. Or maybe switch to grad school, where students tend to be more involved and invested. Sounds like the undergrad environment isn’t for him anymore.

ETA: After reading a few different articles, I also think there HAS to be more to this story. I can’t believe that a school would post security guards in class at a professor’s request and then do nothing more to intervene–again, if the professor comes under harm while performing job duties, that’s more liability. There has to be more than we’re seeing to the story. I’m interested to start seeing the student accounts come out–as we all know they will.