{"id":498599,"date":"2022-10-05T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-margin-college-students-who-got-low-grades-complained-about-their-dismissive-professor-then-nyu-fired-him\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:46:00","slug":"the-margin-college-students-who-got-low-grades-complained-about-their-dismissive-professor-then-nyu-fired-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-margin-college-students-who-got-low-grades-complained-about-their-dismissive-professor-then-nyu-fired-him\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Margin: College students who got low grades complained about their \u2018dismissive\u2019 professor. Then NYU fired him."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4063245fe7b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4063245fe7b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-margin-college-students-who-got-low-grades-complained-about-their-dismissive-professor-then-nyu-fired-him\/#%E2%80%9CThe_Margin_College_students_who_got_low_grades_complained_about_their_%E2%80%98dismissive_professor_Then_NYU_fired_him%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The Margin: College students who got low grades complained about their \u2018dismissive\u2019 professor. Then NYU fired him.&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-margin-college-students-who-got-low-grades-complained-about-their-dismissive-professor-then-nyu-fired-him\/#An_organic_chemistry_professor_at_New_York_University_was_fired_after_82_of_his_350_students_signed_a_petition_against_him\" >An organic chemistry professor at New York University was fired after 82 of his 350 students signed a petition against him.<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-margin-college-students-who-got-low-grades-complained-about-their-dismissive-professor-then-nyu-fired-him\/#Screenshot_of_former_NYU_organic_chemistry_professor_Maitland_Joness_Rate_My_Professor_page\" >Screenshot of former NYU organic chemistry professor Maitland Jones\u2019s Rate My Professor page.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-margin-college-students-who-got-low-grades-complained-about-their-dismissive-professor-then-nyu-fired-him\/#Weston_Blasi\" >Weston Blasi<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_Margin_College_students_who_got_low_grades_complained_about_their_%E2%80%98dismissive_professor_Then_NYU_fired_him%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The Margin: College students who got low grades complained about their \u2018dismissive\u2019 professor. Then NYU fired him.&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"An_organic_chemistry_professor_at_New_York_University_was_fired_after_82_of_his_350_students_signed_a_petition_against_him\"><\/span>\n  An organic chemistry professor at New York University was fired after 82 of his 350 students signed a petition against him.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\">\n<div class=\"article__side\">\n<div class=\"container--sticky not-active\">\n<div id=\"cx-next\" data-nosnippet>\n              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" class=\"article__body article-wrap at16-col16 barrons-article-wrap crawler\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0001248578\" role=\"document\">\n<div class=\"barrons-article-ad-wrapper\">\n<div data-track=\"barrons-article-ad-wrap\" class=\"barrons-article-ad sticky_item\">\n<div class=\"barrons-main-article-ad-target sticky_target body_ad\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-layout=\"\n                inline\" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetArticleReader\n              \n              inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetArticleReader\n              article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-object-article-reader\">\n<div class=\"audioplayer\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0001248578\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Listen to Article\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"articlereader\" data-show-title=\"false\" data-theme=\"wsj-article-reader\" data-show-header=\"false\" data-show-subscribe=\"false\" data-ads-enabled=\"true\" data-save-publication=\"false\">\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       An organic chemistry professor at New York University was fired after 82 of his 350 students signed a petition against him over their low grades and his instruction methods.<\/p>\n<p> The professor, Maitland Jones, is 84 and has taught organic chemistry for decades, first at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~mjjr\/\" class=\"icon none\">Princeton University<\/a> and then at NYU. He also wrote a textbook called \u201cOrganic Chemistry\u201d that\u2019s now in its fifth edition. According to a\u00a0Monday <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/03\/us\/nyu-organic-chemistry-petition.html\" class=\"icon none\">New York Times<\/a>\u00a0report, the petition read in part, \u201cWe are very concerned about our scores, and find that they are not an accurate reflection of the time and effort put into this class.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n       \u201cWe urge you to realize that a class with such a high percentage of withdrawals and low grades has failed to make students\u2019 learning and well-being a priority and reflects poorly on the chemistry department as well as the institution as a whole,\u201d the petition continued.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also: Elon Musk wants to move forward with his purchase of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. Here\u2019s how some Twitter users reacted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The letter also complained that Jones did not accommodate students who missed class time while sick with COVID, something that Jones denies \u2014 Jones said he spent $5,000 of his own money to make videos of his lectures for students, according to the NYT<br \/>\n        NYT,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/202090840\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-0.82%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey weren\u2019t coming to class,\u201d Jones said about classroom attendance in the report. \u201cThat\u2019s for sure because I can count the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Spiers, a NYT opinion writer and journalism professor at NYU, reacted to the situation on Twitter<br \/>\n        TWTR,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/203180645\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-1.35%<\/bg-quote><span>.<\/span>\n      <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of many problems with insanely expensive private education is that institutions have an incentive to treat the student as customer and not student who needs to learn certain things,\u201d Spiers said.<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetTweet\n            inline\n    scope-web|mobileapps\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetTweet\n            article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"dynamic-inset-container article__inset__dynamic\">\n<style>\n            iframe.twitter-tweet {\n                width: 100% !important;\n            }\n        <\/style>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n            <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espiers\/status\/1577021634589753344\"><\/a>\n            <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       \u201cNYU had in Professor Maitland Jones\u00a0a faculty member with a one-year <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointment specifically to teach organic chemistry,\u201d NYU spokesperson John Beckman said in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/10\/03\/maitland-jones-jr-organic-chemistry-nyu-fired\/\" class=\"icon none\">statement<\/a>. \u201cIn one of his organic chemistry classes in the spring 2022 there were, among other troubling indicators, a very high rate of student withdrawals, a student petition signed by 82 students, course evaluation scores that were by far the worst not only among members of the Chemistry Department but among all the University\u2019s undergraduate <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> courses, and multiple student complaints about his dismissiveness, unresponsiveness, condescension, and opacity about grading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Organic chemistry has long been seen as a difficult course and one that students looking to go to medical school must take.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cx-membership-tile\"><\/div>\n<p>The 82 students who signed the petition represented roughly 23% of Jones\u2019s students, the Times indicated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:\u00a0It\u2019s \u2018easy to convince people\u2019 to buy crypto, says law professor \u2014 as Kim Kardashian fined $1.2 million by SEC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A popular website where college students can review teachers called Rate My Professors tells a somewhat similar, yet imprecise look at how Jones\u2019s students viewed him over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Between the years 2003 and 2022, nearly 200 students posted reviews of Jones\u2019s teaching at Princeton and NYU.<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetMediaIllustration\n            inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetMediaIllustration\n            article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n        media-object-image\n        enlarge-image\n        img-inline\n        article__inset__image\n      \" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:43%;\" data-subtype=\"photo\" class=\"image-container  responsive-media article__inset__image__image\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-636748?width=540&amp;size=2.327272727272727 540w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-636748?width=620&amp;size=2.327272727272727 620w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-636748?width=639&amp;size=2.327272727272727 639w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-636748?width=700&amp;size=2.327272727272727 700w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-636748?width=700&amp;size=2.327272727272727&amp;pixel_ratio=1.5 1050w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-636748?width=700&amp;size=2.327272727272727&amp;pixel_ratio=2 1400w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-636748?width=700&amp;size=2.327272727272727&amp;pixel_ratio=3 2100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, (max-width: 979px) 620px, (max-width: 1299px) 540px, 700px\" src=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-636748?width=700&amp;height=301\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\n      <\/div><figcaption class=\"wsj-article-caption article__inset__image__caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">\n<h4 class=\"wsj-article-caption-content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Screenshot_of_former_NYU_organic_chemistry_professor_Maitland_Joness_Rate_My_Professor_page\"><\/span>Screenshot of former NYU organic chemistry professor Maitland Jones\u2019s Rate My Professor page.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>      <span class=\"wsj-article-credit article__inset__image__caption__credit\" itemprop=\"creator\"><br \/>\n            RMP<br \/>\n          <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       As a professor at Princeton, Jones has an overall quality score of 3.5\/5 based on 13 total student ratings, and a 2.9\/5 as an NYU professor based on 183 ratings. Jones has been tagged as a \u201ctough grader\u201d on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ratemyprofessors.com\/search\/teachers?query=Maitland%20Jones\" class=\"icon none\">Rate My Professor<\/a> by his students. RMP has over 1.7 million professors in its database from over 7,500 schools.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline article__byline\">\n<p>    <span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author mobile-scrim hasMenu\" data-scrim='{\"type\":\"author\",\"header\":\"Weston Blasi\",\"subhead\":\"The Wall Street Journal\",\"list\":[{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"bio\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/author\/weston-blasi\",\"text\":\"Biography\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"email\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/mailto:weston.blasi@dowjones.com\",\"text\":\"weston.blasi@dowjones.com\"}]}' itemscope itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<h4 itemprop=\"name\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Weston_Blasi\"><\/span>Weston Blasi<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><ufc-follow-author-widget product=\"marketwatch\" author-id=\"203_MW\" author-name=\"Weston Blasi\" signin-url=\"https:\/\/accounts.marketwatch.com\/login?target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.marketwatch.com%2Fstory%2Fcollege-students-who-got-low-grades-complained-about-their-dismissive-professor-then-nyu-fired-him-11664902420%3Frss%3D1%26siteid%3Drss\" panda-api=\"https:\/\/follow-api.marketwatch.com\"><\/ufc-follow-author-widget><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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