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How the students got a Professor Fired at NYU
Professor Maitland Jones doesn’t want his job back. That’s for the next professor.
Has anyone taken Organic Chemistry at NYU? There’s a professor named Maitland Jones, Jr. and the students got him fired. Why? He was too hard.
Students who want to be aspiring doctors or any medical field need to take Organic Chemistry. Eventually, the students signed a petition to get him fired.
American experimental chemist Maitland Jones Jr. began working at Princeton University in 1964 and remained there until 2007. Then, Princeton called him to retire. After that, he taught at New York University. In addition, he authored several books about organic chemistry.
350 students signed a petition against him last spring, accusing him of making his class too challenging and responsible for their poor grades.
What? Not challenging enough. Suppose they have read the books the professor gave the students, watched the videos prepared for them, and taken the lab class. Then they would pass the course.
“Students were misreading exam questions at an astonishing rate,” Jones, who authored the 1,300-page textbook “Organic Chemistry,” wrote in a grievance to NYU obtained by the Times.
