Georgetown Law School terminated an adjunct professor Thursday after a video was posted on social media showing her making disparaging comments about Black students in a recorded conversation with another professor.
The professor, Sandra Sellers, is shown in the recording making negative comments about Black students’ academic performance.
The comments came at the end of a session of a class she taught jointly with the other professor and which was recorded for future viewing by students.
“I hate to say this,” Sellers says in the video recording of her conversation with another Georgetown law professor, David Batson. “I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks. Happens almost every semester. And it’s like, oh, come on. You get some really good ones. But there are also usually some that are just plain at the bottom. It drives me crazy.”
Georgetown Law fires professor for âabhorrentâ remarks about Black students
By Michael Levenson New York Times,Updated March 12, 2021, 8:52 a.m.
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Georgetown University Law Center said on Thursday that it had fired an adjunct professor who made âabhorrentâ remarks about Black students on a video call and had placed another adjunct who was on the call with her on administrative leave.
The two adjunct professors, Sandra A. Sellers and David C. Batson, seemed to be unaware they were being recorded, according to a roughly 40-second clip of their conversation that generated widespread outrage after it was shared online.