Georgetown Professor Accused of 'Blatant' Racism on Zoom

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Georgetown University law students are demanding a professor be fired over a Zoom call in which she disparaged the academic performance of Black students. "We learned earlier this week that two members of our faculty engaged in a conversation that included reprehensible statements concerning the evaluation of Black students," Georgetown Law Dean Bill Treanor wrote in a Wednesday letter, noting an investigation has been opened, per NBC News. He didn't identify the professors, but the Black Law Student Association named them as Sandra Sellers and David Batson, per the Daily Beast. Both are white.

In a clip of a Zoom conversation, uploaded to a student learning platform, Sellers spoke to Batson about grades. "I hate to say this. I end up having this, you know, angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks," she said.

"It happens almost every semester. And it’s like, 'Oh, come on,'" continued the adjunct professor, per WTOP. " get some really good ones but they're also usually some that are just plain at the bottom," she added. "It drives me crazy." Batson, who had nodded while Sellers was speaking, responded, "What drives me crazy is, you know, the concept of how that plays out, and whether that is, you know, my own perceptions playing in here."


Treanor said the video was "abhorrent" and "we are responding with the utmost seriousness." But the BLSA says no investigation is necessary given the "blatant and shameless racism." It's calling for Sellers' "immediate termination" in its own letter. Her "bias has impacted the grades of Black students in her classes historically, in her own words," it reads.

https://www.newser.com/story/303580/georgetown-professor-accused-of-blatant-racism-on-zoom.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_world_login

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1. It makes me wonder how they do their grading.

In my law school, with very few exceptions, class grades were based solely on a final exam, usually consisting of several essay questions. Each student was assigned a new test number each semester. Names were never involved.

I suppose a professor might have been able to get the identity lists from the administration, although I doubt it. The one professor I can think of who might have tried it was surprised, and somewhat pissed, when he found out the only student who had gotten an A in his contracts class was the one who skipped the last two weeks of class.

Which raises the question in my mind of how she knows who the African American students are?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. She's been terminated

Georgetown Law professor terminated after ‘reprehensible’ comments about Black students

A Georgetown law professor was terminated and a second was placed on leave after a video clip showed a conversation between the pair that included what an official called “reprehensible” statements about Black students, officials said Thursday.

The conversation between adjunct professors Sandra Sellers and David Batson had triggered an investigation by Georgetown University’s Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action. The school’s Black Law Students Association had called for Sellers’s firing.

The video clip — which was shared on Twitter this week — showed Sellers discussing student performance.

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“I hate to say this. I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks,” Sellers said in the video. “Happens almost every semester. And it’s like, ‘Oh, come on.’ You get some really good ones, but there are also usually some that are just plain at the bottom. It drives me crazy.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/georgetown-law-sandra-sellers-black-students/2021/03/11/c798eae0-827d-11eb-ac37-4383f7709abe_story.html