Re: Devastating News

Imperative wrote:

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Christophe wrote:
>What an awful story! Isn't that a light behaviour for a professor?
>Are all
>student-run classes treated like expensible material like that?
>Shouldn't that
>be considered like a professional fault? After all, you had an
>agreement on
>making the class didn't you? Or am I having a wrong assumption when I
>assume
>that a university is organised? :))
My thoughts too.  That is very unprofessional behavior, reprehensible even.
She had better have a Really Good Excuse-- detained by the Feds, kidnapped,
murdered, death in the family that required a trip to China/Patagonia etc...

No large organization can ever be organized........


>Still, taking issue with your professors may not be wise if you want
>their custom in future...
Yes and no.  David may not be the only student whom she is treating so
shabbily, and a complaint in the right quarters might be in order. I would
think that her Dept. might be interested in knowing where she is and why she
isn't keeping up with official duties. Or, is there, for ex. a _student_
organization that oversees the student-run classes?

Personally, if the class has already been announced and scheduled, I'd at
least start it, permission or no, on an informal basis, with the hope that
matters can be straightened out fairly soon.