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Why are the "Gen Z" students clashing with this one specific professor, if it's a generational thing?

> Why are the "Gen Z" students clashing with this one specific professor, if it's a generational thing?

1. A lot of professors may take the easy way out, and lower their standards as demanded by their students. Especially those in contract positions like this.

2. This professor seems to actually be very highly esteemed (he literally wrote the widely-used textbook), and is only in this adjunct role because he's retired. Therefore he has a lot more power to get his side of the story out and the personal stakes are a lot lower for him.

Most professors have adapted and give students what they want?

We're to think every other professor has lowered standards so far that the only one refusing to do so is routinely handing out tests that garner 30% class averages?

It doesn't have to go as far as literally everybody else. It just has to be common enough that it's frustrating for the students when a professor does not behave this way.

> We're to think every other professor has lowered standards so far that the only one refusing to do so is routinely handing out tests that garner 30% class averages?

The only one who got into the news.

So most of the experts in the field think that a change in teaching methods is the optimal strategy? Maybe there's a good reason for that.

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