NYT: In the field of organic chemistry, Maitland Jones Jr. has a storied reputation. He taught the subject for decades, first at Princeton and then at New York University, and wrote an influential textbook.
He received awards for his teaching, as well as recognition as one of N.Y.U.’s coolest professors.But last spring, as the campus emerged from pandemic restrictions, 82 of his 350 students signed a petition against him.Students said the high-stakes course — notorious for ending many a dream of medical school — was too hard, blaming Dr. Jones for their poor test scores.
The professor defended his standards. But just before the start of the fall semester, university deans terminated Dr. Jones’s contract. MORE
Organic chemistry ain’t no cakewalk.
No matter who teaches it.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
I systematized Organic Chemistry.
But that course is SUPPOSED to separate your alkanes from your alkenes! (The first inorganic course will do the same thing.)
I guess Dr’s graduating from NYU will no longer understand chemistry.
Perfect for working at the CDC…
When doctors now days can’t define a woman chemistry real isn’t that important.
Yep, in 5-10 years these “yutes” will be our doctors. We’re doomed.
I guess this applies here too: In a world where the United Nations just let it be known that every decision will be determined by propaganda instead of scientific facts…
every thing is too hard for the participation trophy generation
Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse is an excellent example what you get when this kind of idiocy takes the “hard sciences.” It will only get worse the World Economic Forum and United Nations have made it abundantly clear that they own the science. They don’t own science, but they do own “science.”
If one were hell bent on increasing innocent human suffering, misery and death, I can’t think of a better way to implement your agenda.
Anyone in any way involved in promoting or enabling this to continue are murderers by proxy and will be so judged.
Apparently the course is lacking in equity, which means that people who can’t learn (or don’t care to) won’t make the cut. This will never do.
Awww…poor babies. As an NYU Alumnus, I took Organic Chem there (at University College, Heights campus) and I know how tough it was. And this is at Washington Square, which us Bronxites considered the “Hippy NYU” and an easier course than the Heights. I guess an NYU education is not the same as it was 50 years ago.
“Atlas Shrugged” is no longer creeping toward reality. Now it’s in a full-on trot.
The docs that are coming over from India are looking better and better. Now if I could only understand what they’re saying….
What a fucking worthless country we’re becoming. Seriously, if someone started a no frills university that was solely about STEM programs and only admitted the highest scoring students regardless of race and graded them objectively, it would be a school filled with Asians and mostly men, and it would be the top school in the country… but… we have to make stupid women and blacks feel good about themselves… so… here we are… firing competent professors of difficult subjects because of whiny diversity matriculated pus bags.
I’m guessing the 82 who signed the petition (out of a class of 350) were POC who were admitted to NYU in spite of poor grades/SAT scores, because “equity”!
Oregon just dropped the requirement for aspiring lawyers to pass a bar exam for the same reason. It was racist, because too few POC were passing the exam.
So how’s the Artemis NASA Rocket thingy going?
Dhat’s got some uh du Maff & Fisics an Shit Two!
“…Dr. Jones received a short note from Gregory Gabadadze, dean for science, terminating his contract. Dr. Jones’s performance, he wrote, “did not rise to the standards we require from our teaching faculty.”…”
What he really meant was, “…did not SINK to the standards we require from our teaching faculty.”…”
when I first read this I thought it was a joke: a bad joke.
I have a hard science degree. I won’t say exactly what, but it involved some significant chemistry. O-Chem is generally regarded as a filter course. They use it to separate “those that can” from “those that can’t”. O-Chem has about 10 pages of boilerplate freshman Inorganic Chem 1A subtle details that you have to “Grok” deeply, just to stay afloat. To excel, you have to own that stuff.
I graduated, with some graduate study in a chemistry heavy related science, and worked in a chemistry role for years. O-Chem kicked my a**. I made it a little over halfway thru O-chem… And I accept that it has to be this way. The stakes are simply too high.
KR