University of Missouri Prof Resigns Over Outrage for Failing to Cancel Exam
Wait, you mean students at the University of Missouri are expected to take exams when a protest is going on? What an outrage.
Peter Hasson reports at Campus Reform.
Mizzou prof. resigns following outrage over his refusal to cancel exam
Dr. Dale Brigham, considered one of the most beloved professors at the University of Missouri, has resigned after refusing to cancel an exam for students who claimed to feel “unsafe.”
“If you don’t feel safe coming to class, then don’t come to class,” Dr. Brigham told his students. “I will be there, and there will be an exam administered in our class,” he continued, imploring his students to stand up to the bullies on campus. “If you give into bullies, they win. The only way bullies are defeated is by standing up to them.”
Dr. Brigham was sharply criticized in the media for requiring his students to attend class and take their exam. Salon ran a story with the headline “White Missouri professor shames black students for heeding violent threats.”The Washington Post featured similar coverage of “a white professor” who “challenged his students to come to class.”
Those upset with Dr. Brigham’s decision to hold class took to Twitter calling for Brigham to be fired and calling him “a failure as a human being.”
Under intense pressure, Dr. Brigham has both cancelled the exam and resigned from the university, according to screenshots posted online of an email from Dr. Brigham to his students.
“The exam is cancelled. Our students will be able to take the exam at an alternate date with no loss of points,” Dr. Brigham told students. “No one will have to come to class today. And, I am resigning my position.”
Mizzou prof. resigns following outrage over his refusal to cancel exam (Campus Reform)
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I am disgusted with how university life has once again devolved and regret that my grandson enters university next fall. I completely understand Dr. Brigham’s withdrawal from this impossible situation. I bailed on university teaching in 2000 when things were still fairly sane on many campuses and faculty generally retained some support from the administration. It is just not worth the personal sacrifices we make in our integrity, despite that many worthy students, no doubt, lose out when solid faculty resign.