It is the teachers duty to make extraneous and most likely unnecessary material available to students. If the teacher can not provide the student with this material for whatever reason, it should be removed from the curriculum. No amount of hard work you have done or things you have accomplished gives you the entitlement to be a selfish and indifferent jerk; do not try to rationalize irresponsible behavior just so that you feel better. You simply do not care, so don't sugarcoat it or try to make an excuse for it.

It is the teachers duty to make extraneous and most likely unnecessary material available to students. If the teacher can not provide the student with this material for whatever reason, it should be removed from the curriculum. No amount of hard work you have done or things you have accomplished gives you the entitlement to be a selfish and indifferent jerk; do not try to rationalize irresponsible behavior just so that you feel better. You simply do not care, so don't sugarcoat it or try to make an excuse for it.

As for the person you are attacking, think about it: were they REALLY saying they like the business world? Maybe all they were really saying is: "this person wouldn't last five minutes in the harshest social system I know of." Use your brain, sir, and not your anger and you will find a much smarter thing to say than mindless rantings that have been duplicated the world over by people just as angry as you.

She said 'erect'

So, she wants us to speak to our professors about problems, but she herself erects a shield of busyness to block that out? Absolute rubbish.

If you want to be a professor, you go to school until there is no more school, you perform original research and write your results in a significant document, then spend the rest of your life fending off assaults on your ideas and methods. Oh, yeah. You teach college kids, too. If you're lucky (unlucky), adults (grad students).

In the first case, you get a master's (>L., teacher, big shot); in the second, you get a doctorate (>L., having been taught, made docile).

Remember in Georg Büchner's "Woyzeck," when the Doctor/Scientist shows his imperviousness to the human condition but reacts to a hypothetical lizard becoming ill? I don't want to deal with sick notes, boyfriend problems, and life's assorted little pitfalls. I didn't sign on for that. Come to class, do your work, get your grade, God be with you.

There are two types of professors: those that care more about teaching and those that care more about their research. Of course there are those in between somewhere as well.

Unfortunately, many professors put their research first. Obviously their "contribution to mankind" can be pretty substantial, especially in the sciences. For students taking classes, it's always preferable to have a professor that truly cares about teaching and wants to help students succeed.

You're not my teacher, but after reading this post of yours, i wish you were! I have been waiting so very long to come across a teacher who thinks like you do/regards students as you do. Thank you so much for letting everyone know that teachers SHOULD care!

Thank you sooooo much! Based on your comment, i'd say the world could use more teachers like you, and others could follow your lead!

Perhaps you are the one that should return to grade school. She said, "I have a shield of busyness that I actually erect to mitigate students approaching me and thinking that I am available to spend a long time talking about their particular problems or medical certificates etcetera. "

At the end, she said : "All of us have been students; certainly professors have been students. It's very easy, if you don't do well in a class or are not following it to blame the professor. It's absolutely a normal thing to do. However, if you go to the professor and talk to them about the difficulties that you are having and confront them about the things that you don't like, there is the chance of really learning something."

These two comments are obvious contradictions to each other. Why? Because, she never made the distinction between personal issues and class issues. She used the phrase "particular problems". If she meant "personal issues", she should have clarified that. So, if that was not the case and if people think that she is an unacceptable professor because of this, it is her fault for misrepresenting herself. Basically, she had no business doing this video because she confirmed the validity of every complaint that was addressed here.

Furthermore, what's more frightening is the rising number of pretentious individuals such as yourself that think they know more than they do. You are the reason why "professors" like her exist.

If you are ‘the new guy’ writing for the local newspaper, and your editor wants you to write a story about some event, they do not want to do all the work themselves and then have you type it and put your name under it. You have to ‘figure it out.’ It may or may not be a decent article in thier eyes, and they may make you rewrite it. Someone needs to teach students about responsibility and make them open to criticism.

If you want to try and get a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, and you just do it exactly, then get a job at a factory, and leave college.

However, people really do have huge problems, and it does affect their classes. Sometimes it leads them to recieve an ‘unacceptable’ grade. It happens. Get over it. If you are a parent, and you have to leave work twice per week because your kid is sick or acting up at school, that is not your fault either. But you will (in most careers) get repremanded for it or worse. Luckily, in college, there are usually ways to help yourself get back on track. Talk to the counciling center about your issues, talk to the registrar’s office about retaking the course (if your school does that), talk to the financial aid office about getting your financial aid back, and ask each of them who to take your appeals to. THAT IS THEIR JOB. Not your instructors job.

Fortunately for me, my art professor is not a little ****** like her.

If you want a prof who’s willing to help you out, don’t go to huge research universities like NYU!!

She never said she wouldn’t talk to a student about class issues. The people who think they are being clever by finding a contradiction between saying to get help if you are having class problems and her not wanting to be bothered with personal ****, need to go back to grade school. She said it is not a good use of her time to waste it listening to them whine about personal issues, not class issues. Most universities have counseling if they need it. Professors are not trained or equipped to dish out personal counseling.

I don’t know what is more frightening, that these people got into a college or will likely graduate. Either way, it bodes ill for the future.

Do you really think she should make herself available 24/7? She has office hours, and class time. She is not required to give anymore of her time to students. If you think professors get paid to teach and only teach, you are living in a fantasy world. Teaching, especially for researchers, is a small part of their duties.

Yes, you are expected to “figure things out on your own”. This is not HS where you get spoon fed.

- Perfect analysis.

Re: “There was an article on her in last Tuesday’s NYT. Evidently, she’s a force to be reckoned with.”

- Evidently, your brain has been f***** by an iguana with AIDS.

Re: “Jeremijenko is a preeminent contemporary artist and a brilliant scientist, with international recognition for her work. She is experienced in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience, precision engineering, and visual arts, and has won several awards for her art, design, inventions, and engineering.”

- Blah blah blah. Yeah, and that mor*nic windbag Gore has a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. And that lying $cumb*g m*ron Obama has a grammy. Who gives a flying ***?

She’s also a dumb@$$ ignorant b****, and all your sucking up is [probably] not going to get her to lick your c***/c***.

What is the purpose of education? To produce titles and status for professors? This teacher seems to actually believe that which makes her a joke. All you other teachers who believe that are even worse because you’ve got a glaringly obvious bad example in streaming video right above where you post your comments and you still post them. You are therefore doubly ignorant even worse jokes than Dr. Stick-up-her-***. This forum gives YOU the chance to learn and improve–not your students–and if you still can’t see that then you need to find another job.

If a teacher can’t convey a meaningful message and be well respected by his or her students and meet their needs (which they are paying for by the way), then that teacher is a poor one indeed. Find a way be a teacher. Period.

All you teachers who took offense to this post instead of rallying behind it, please refer to the following comments from one of your peers:

http://www.mtvu.com/video/?vid=230020