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What do you do if you have a bad professor?
How to Deal with a Bad Professor
- Ask your advisor. I’m a big fan of giving professors a fair chance.
- Go to class anyways.
- Reach out to your (bad) professor.
- When in doubt, stick to the syllabus.
- Find extra resources.
- Go to study sessions.
- Do your best.
- Relax.
Who do you talk to if you have a problem with a professor?
If your student feels there is a problem that can’t be worked out, or that is too serious to bring directly to the professor, don’t suggest that they go immediately to the top person at the college. Suggest that they go first to the department or division chairperson and talk.
Do professors Really Want you to come to class?
Professors really want you to come to class. They want you to learn the material, and, more important, they feel really cruddy when only 10 students shown up the day before spring break. (Hey, they’d like to be off skiing, too.)
Why don’t professors teach service courses anymore?
Especially at large state universities, where the student-faculty ratio is approaching 20 to 1, professors can’t be bothered to teach the so-called “service” courses—you know, those humongous intro courses where the only thing being serviced is the mindless distribution (or gen ed or lower-division) requirements.
Can a professor leave a class immediately if a student texts?
In 2008, a philosophy professor at Syracuse University sparked a controversy with his policy of leaving class immediately, without covering material that would have been discussed, if he caught a student texting or reading the newspaper. Hiring? Post A Job Today! We have retired comments and introduced Letters to the Editor.
Should professors be allowed to grade students based on behavioral issues?
It should be the right of a professor to grade on behavioral issues and not strictly academic ones, whether that means failing a student who engages in academic misconduct or taking off points for people who miss class or turn in work late.