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Dean of Georgetown Law Bill Treanor said he was “appalled” by the “reprehensible” statements made by former professor Sandra Sellers and David Batson, another professor who was placed on administration leave, in a letter to the Georgetown Law community on Thursday.
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Sellers was heard in a video discussion with Batson talking over her "angst" about the performance of Black students, NBC News reported.
The conversation was recorded and posted on the online database Panopto which students have access to as they attend virtual classes.
“I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks, happens almost every semester," Sellers said in the video.
According to NBC News, the Black Law Student Association had already collected over a thousand signatures demanding that the school take action before Sellers's termination was announced.
Sounds like the professor was simply concerned and wanted to brainstorm with a colleague about how to help her black students do better. Now she's branded a "reprehensible" racist, her career ruined permanently.
It must be hell to be a professor nowadays. If only there was an institutional protection to prevent the capricious firing of professors...
She was a mere adjunct professor, no tenure, mainly a working lawyer in contract law. I don't imagine becoming a nationally famous racist will be good for business.
She was a mere adjunct professor, no tenure, mainly a working lawyer in contract law. I don't imagine becoming a nationally famous racist will be good for business.
How was she racist by just stating fact and reality?
She sounds like a caring professor to me. And it would make sense that most (not all) black students would be at the low end of performance since most (not all) got in under lower admissions requirements.
Source: myself, having worked in admissions. It was easy to decipher how many black students qualified under the “white” standards. It was approximately 1/3 of those admitted.
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