Here’s a guy, James Hood, who taught history at Tulane for decades and decades even though… well… check it out. 1.8 for Clarity… But if Rate My Professors rated lying, he’d for sure get a 5.
He and his wife and kids moved from Louisiana to Minnesota, where they got half a million dollars of state aid because they’d been displaced by Katrina and were impoverished.
Or that’s what they told the state. Actually, Professor Hood and his wife are multimillionaires with extensive property. They’re being investigated for Medical Assistance fraud.
This doesn’t reflect well on Tulane.
May 12th, 2011 at 12:36PM
“This doesn’t reflect well on Tulane.” So, you believe in collective institutional guilt? Or do you think Tulane’s Human Resources helped this fellow fill out the paperwork to defraud the feds?
May 12th, 2011 at 1:23PM
No – I think that Tulane tenured this man and kept him on the faculty – teaching – even though there seems to have been clear evidence that he taught very poorly indeed. Because Tulane kept him on its teaching faculty for decades, these latest incidents in his life, as I say in my post, reflect badly on the institution affiliated with him for his professional career.
One of the RMP commenters says he was told that the department tried to fire him. The perils of tenuring. When someone teaches this poorly and you can’t figure out a way to fire him, you’re supposed to find some other thing to do with him to get him out of the classroom.