Should I Report My Professor? Not Sure What To Do

I’ve taken a professor to the chair. I started at the beginning of the semester before any exams had been taken and met with him approximately 4-5 throughout the semester. He kept asking me for updates and once sat in on our class. Multiple students ended up complaining about her by the end of the year. For immediate remediation of a situation, I would say it might not be extremely useful. He basically would have conversations with her and voice our issues with her, but she didn’t change much. She would just justify her actions to us in lecture with BS reasons. I never went to the dean because my department didn’t have one at the time (per the other comment). If you are very serious, I recommend doing both but start with the chair. They will talk with the dean about it if they think it’s serious enough, but it doesn’t hurt for the dean to hear it twice. The next semester my professor wasn’t allowed to teach the class. She had been at SDSU for 25 years so she was very established and there wasn’t much they could do to fix our class except try and talk her into changing her ways. But there was no immediate gratification. I still had to bear through her absolute ridiculousness for the semester. I don’t mean do discourage you at all though. I think it’s important to voice your concerns. However, the chair did make it clear that your concerns are much louder with a group support. Thankfully, my professor recorded her lectures and he could see that the entire class would get into arguments with her and we would literally spend multiple periods of class time arguing so he knew it wasn’t just me. I’ve also never complained before. I support you by all means and think you should. If you can send out a class email and get more support, I’d do it. This was my personal experience and feel free to PM me for anything else.

Also, never take a class with Dr. Segal :)

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