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UCLA Students Want Two Professors Fired Because They Didn’t Accommodate Student Feelings

Ashe Schow
UCLA Students Want Two Professors Fired Because They Didn’t Accommodate Student Feelings
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Two University of California-Los Angeles professors are under fire because they did their jobs, which upset some students.

Gordon Klein, an accounting professor, received an email from a group of students requesting the professor allow for a “‘no-harm’ final exam that could only benefit students’ grades, and for shortened exams and extended deadlines for final assignments and projects,” Inside Higher Ed reported. The students requested all of these accommodations due to recent “traumas, we have been placed in a position where we much choose between actively supporting our black classmates or focusing on finishing up our spring quarter.”

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