Today after the Global Perspectives class I saw in the hallway three of my groupmates who I work with on the Political Risk Analysis paper. From a distance I noticed they had quite an involved conversation. Naturally, I assumed they were discussing our paper, so I joined them.
Turned out they were not concerned with the Global Perspectives course. They were talking about Macroeconomics course they had in Fall semester. I was surprised they were still mulling that case, but it also told me how much they were affected by the whole experience in that class. I actually mentioned briefly about this situation and the fact that not all professors are made equal.
While hanging around with these guys for a bit I learned the root of their anxiety. Apparently professor failed about 10% of the class. I knew about their bad experience with the class, but until today I did not know how actually bad it was. This was the first time I heard personally about MBA students being failed on the course. And 10% is a lot!
I did not want to embarass the guys by asking if anyone of them personally got a failed grade in the course. But at the best they got very low passing grades since they were concerned about it until now. However, the center of the conversation was the rumor that professor had been removed from teaching in the future. Apparently, he got low course evaluations from the students too, and combined with the high failing rate the department was prompted to act on that. So, at least I can remove him from my “watchlist” for now.
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