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4:40 AM

If all students of a class sign a petition claiming that a professor of a course is disqualified to teach, does the department/faculty change that professor? Do students have this right? and what is the procedure to do so? UPDATE: When ALL students sign a letter that they do not learn in the cl...

This question is errantly on hold.

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EnergyNumbers

1:31 PM

@Joshua "errantly" means journeying or travelling. Are you sure that's the word you want?

jakebeal

1:58 PM

@EnergyNumbers Oh, don't be a pedant. In the universal academic language of broken English, 'errantly' clearly maps to 'erroneously.' Though it looks like it's not on hold any more in any case...

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Compass

4:02 PM

There's a Stack Exchange for that.

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Davidmh

10:39 PM

Here we have an answer at a score of -11, but it is still visible (not even grayed out), even for unregistered users: academia.stackexchange.com/a/40432/12587 Is this expected? Has there been a change lately?

ff524

11:01 PM

@Davidmh If I had to guess, I'd say it's part of the new network-wide design

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