{"id":1672664,"date":"2022-10-04T16:19:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672664"},"modified":"2022-10-04T16:21:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:21:15","slug":"aspiring-medical-students-at-top-school-get-their-chemistry-professor-fired-because-his-class-had-high-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aspiring-medical-students-at-top-school-get-their-chemistry-professor-fired-because-his-class-had-high-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspiring Medical Students At Top School Get Their Chemistry Professor Fired Because His Class Had High Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faspiring-medical-students-at-top-school-get-their-chemistry-professor-fired-because-his-class-had-high-standards%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672664&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York University<\/a> organic chemistry professor Maitland Jones was fired after students petitioned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/colleges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">school<\/a> with claims that his class was too difficult.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/03\/us\/nyu-organic-chemistry-petition.html\">report<\/a> from The New York Times, Jones \u2014 who taught at Princeton University for decades and wrote a bestselling textbook on his subject \u2014 maintained a rigorous course that his students, many of whom are pursuing medical careers, considered a weed-out class. After 82 of his 350 pupils signed a petition against him earlier this spring, university deans canceled his teaching contract, which he had previously renewed on a yearly basis.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Walters, who directs New York University\u2019s undergraduate chemistry department, explained in an email to Jones that the school would let students retroactively withdraw from his class as a \u201cgentle but firm hand to the students and those who pay the tuition bills\u201d \u2014 an apparent reference to parents.<\/p>\n<p>New York University, where annual tuition is nearly $60,000, places highly on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/best-colleges\/nyu-2785\">national rankings<\/a> of American undergraduate programs. Alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/5-signs-the-quality-of-a-college-degree-isnt-what-it-used-to-be\">other elite schools<\/a>, New York University implemented <a href=\"https:\/\/meet.nyu.edu\/uncategorized\/test-optional-at-nyu-what-it-is-and-isnt\/\">test optional<\/a> admissions in response to COVID and government lockdowns \u2014 a policy under which applicants are not required to submit scores for standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT.<\/p>\n<p>Jones first noticed a decline in students\u2019 focus roughly one decade ago, although student performance has since worsened. \u201cIn the last two years, they fell off a cliff,\u201d he wrote in a letter to the university contesting his termination. \u201cWe now see single digit scores and even zeros.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 84-year-old professor paid more than $5,000 out of his own pocket to produce 52 organic chemistry lectures intended to help students succeed despite the school\u2019s closure in the spring of 2020. Nevertheless, students failed to take advantage of the extra assistance and appeared in class at lower rates once the university returned to conventional instruction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey weren\u2019t coming to class, that\u2019s for sure, because I can count the house,\u201d Jones said in an interview with The New York Times. \u201cThey weren\u2019t watching the videos, and they weren\u2019t able to answer the questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kent Kirshenbaum, a fellow chemistry professor, told the outlet that he discovered cheating during online tests and responded by decreasing students\u2019 grades. He explained that the students protested because \u201cthey were not given grades that would allow them to get into medical school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The petition against Jones complained of his \u201ccondescending and demanding\u201d tone, as well as his decision to conceal course averages and neglect to offer extra credit. \u201cWe urge you to realize that a class with such a high percentage of withdrawals and low grades has failed to make students\u2019 learning and well-being a priority and reflects poorly on the chemistry department as well as the institution as a whole,\u201d the document contended.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy over Jones\u2019 termination emerged weeks after President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-biden-announces-details-of-student-loan-cancellation-plan\">unveiled a plan<\/a> to eliminate $10,000 in student loans per borrower earning under $125,000, as well as $20,000 per borrower who paid for college using Pell Grants.<\/p>\n<p>According to economists at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Wharton School, the policy may encourage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-biden-announces-details-of-student-loan-cancellation-plan\">higher levels of college attendance<\/a> as potential borrowers consider the possibility of future bailouts. \u201cIf student loan debt forgiveness is ongoing, students might eventually reorganize their financing toward additional borrowing,\u201d analysts explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York University organic chemistry professor Maitland Jones was fired after students petitioned the school with claims that his class was too difficult. According to a report from The New York Times, Jones \u2014 who taught at Princeton University for decades and wrote a bestselling textbook on his subject \u2014 maintained a rigorous course that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1672666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1672666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}