O COLLEGE OF EDUCATION NO

[tzikeh]

Why is it that, every single semester, without fail (or maybe I should say FULL OF FAIL), I get a professor in the College of Ed who is racist, sexist, or senile?

Or all three?

o/ <-- not waving, but drowning

Comments

[ilyena_sylph]

Tenure.

And old farts that don't know when to fade into the background.

[cereta]

Because tenure is a three-edged sword.

[ratcreature]

Are these characteristics more common among your professors than the general population? If they are only *as common* it merely means they aren't actually working in some positive way to avoid this, so it'd be just inertia?

[shayheyred]

My senior year in college, I heard a professoor refer to me, when he didn't see me behind him, as "that fat Jewish girl." I was enraged, appalled and very hurt. So I reported him, was told it was not the first report they'd heard on him, but that "well, he's got tenure, so there's nothing we can do." I was 21, and stupid enough to believe that. Today, as I am still Jewish, no longer fat but way, way older and not easily cowed, I'd have a hell of a lot more to say, to a hell of a lot more people. There's no excuse for racism or sexism in a class. As for senility...well, you may have a tenure issue there, and I'm not sure anything can be done until the guy croaks.