Good for her! Finally, a professor who understands that coddling these kids does nothing but cripple them later in life when they run face-first into reality.
Grading on a curve was the beginning of the end, IMHO
President Obummer removed for two-faced gloating (lying and bragging about it has become the norm at WH)
I hypothesize that if you spent more time reading the class material and showing up for class and less time staying up all night to do bong hits and missing her class, you would be passing her class.
You make your course ridiculously easy, you get good student evaluations, the administration pats you on the back and this keeps the enrollment high and the tuition bucks coming in.
That’s exactly what I am involved with and I don’t care, I play the game because as a grad student I only have to do it one more year. But God bless this professor.
I wonder how many LSU football and basketball players were in her class and whether the coaches made a phone call to the Dean.
However, if 90% of the class is failing, she needs to do something differently.
ha, if only Obozo had encountered enough profs like this at Columbia and Harvard..... he never could have graduated!
AHA!!!Caught that bitch being a good teacher......fire her immediately...what if this gets out!!!
You mean she expects people to work, study, learn and succeed??? Why the BASTARD!!!
One would think that a 90% failure rate would reflect poorly on the teacher. I’m not sure that it has anything to do with her grading too hard ... but, apparently, she wasn’t teaching anyone anything.
If 90% of your students can’t pass your test, you’re probably part of the problem. Your job is to prepare your students for your test.
SnakeDoc
My email message to Dr. Homberger:
To: ‘zodhomb@lsu.edu‘
Subject: Grading in Higher Education
Professor Dr. Homberger:
Many thanks for your efforts to maintain academic standards, Good luck with the LSU administration.
Regards,
Grade inflation appears to have become policy at Louisiana State University, where Professor Dominique G. Homberger was removed from teaching an introductory biology course for giving tough grades.
Poor little students. Their lives are ruined by this hard grading professor. Oh, what will become of them, oh, woe.
For goodness sakes, when I was in school I had an English teacher that proudly proclaimed that most of us would never see a B in her class. We worked our butts off to prove her wrong. While some did, unfortunately, I didn’t. But, I sure learned a lot in that class.
“...LSU boasts of being the state flagship...”
Dumbing down education for globalization; these students should get use to bowing as part of daily employment.
You'd get maybe 6 choices, then you'd get choices like, 7: All of the above; 8: None of the above; 9: A and B, definitely not C, D and E, possibly F. 10: Definitely not A or B, possible C, D, and E and certainly F.
Well, you get the idea.
We hated those multiple choice tests, but it seems that is the way the subject was taught back then, becuase I've spoken to others that took the subject at a different school and their recollections are the same as mine.
Nothing new here. At my major northeast state university, promotion and tenure considerations include student evaluations. As long as student evaluations are good (better than 4 on a scale of 1-5), other factors are considered. If student evaluations fall below 4, it really doesn’t matter what else you do.
So... Give higher grades, get better evaluations, get promoted. Until colleges stop using student evaluations as a primary factor in promotion and tenure, the dumbing down will continue.
In the 31 years that I have been teaching, the standards have dropped to a point where students do not feel a need to study outside of class. Ever.
I’d say that she is doing one thing wrong. She needs to coordinate her efforts with the other professors in her department. It would be MUCH better to raise the standards across the board somewhat than to create a situation where one entry-level class is dramatically harder than all of the others.