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NYU Professor Fired For Giving Students ‘Tough Love,’ Tells College Deans To “Not Coddle Students”

by Iesha
October 21, 2022
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NYU Professor Fired For Giving Students 'Tough Love,' Tells College Deans To "Not Coddle Students"

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A professor fired after students complained that his class was too hard is now telling colleges to “apply a little tough love” to its students.
New York University fired Maitland Jones Jr., 84, a former chemistry professor, after students complained that his course was too challenging.
“We are very concerned about our scores, and find that they are not an accurate reflection of the time and effort put into this class,” the petition said.

“We urge you to realize… that a class with such a high percentage of withdrawals and low grades has failed to make students’ learning and well-being a priority and reflects poorly on the chemistry department as well as the institution as a whole,” the petition states.

Jones told the New York Times in a statement that the COVID-19 outbreak significantly impacted the decline in student interest.

“They weren’t coming to class, that’s for sure, because I can count the house,” Jones said. “They weren’t watching the videos, and they weren’t able to answer the questions.”

On Thursday, Jones said that college deans must learn to “not coddle students” in an opinion piece for the Boston Globe.

“Critically, the growing number of administrators, major and minor, who are often without any expertise in a given subject matter, need to learn to stand back from purely academic matters and to support the faculty,” Jones said. “Deans must learn to not coddle students for the sake of tuition and apply a little tough love. They must join the community in times of conflict to generate those teachable moments.”

“Even before COVID-19 disrupted classrooms, there were signs of trouble. I came to New York University in 2007 after 43 years of teaching and research at Princeton, where I had both tenure and an endowed chair,” Jones said. “I wanted to see if the technique I had introduced at Princeton, in which the talking-head lecture was deemphasized in favor of small-group problem solving, was transferable to another university.”

“All went well at first as students prospered in the problem-solving setting and younger faculty began to adopt it. But about 10 years ago, I noticed that students were increasingly misreading exam questions,” he added.

“Exams that should have yielded a B average dropped to C- or worse. Single-digit scores became common, and we even had zeros on exams, something that had never happened before. In his opinion piece, Malesic speculates on causes (screen time, COVID-induced remote “learning”) and suggests that we do no one a favor by continuing to dumb down our courses. I completely agree, although I must admit that I was guilty of some grade inflation,” he said.

However, Jones said that his “reputation as a chemist and educator has not been seriously damaged.”

“In short, he was hired to teach and wasn’t successful,” the spokesperson said. “NYU has lots of hard courses and lots of tough graders among the faculty – they don’t end up with outcomes that raise questions about the quality and effectiveness of the teaching, as this class did.”

According to a New York University spokesperson, the class suffered from a “very high rate of student withdrawals” and “evaluation scores that were by far the worst” among all undergraduate science courses at the university.

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