This professor made a huge mistake by overreacting to something he did which was essentially nothing. Even students think he made the situation worse for himself. He was clearly terrified of a certain reaction. Why?
The New York Post reports:
Fordham U. prof fired after mixing up two black students in classA Fordham University professor was fired after mixing up the names of two black students in class, according to a report.Hours after what he called an “innocent mistake,” lecturer Christopher Trogan, 46, sent a rambling, nine-page email to students in his Composition II classes explaining the faux pas — and defending, without being asked, his “entire life” of working on “issues of justice, equality, and inclusion,” the campus newspaper reported.“The offended student assumed my mistake was because I confused that student with another Black student,” Trogan wrote, according to a Nov. 29 article in the Fordham Observer. “I have done my best to validate and reassure the offended student that I made a simple, human, error. It has nothing to do with race.”He blamed the mistake on his “confused brain” when the two students arrived to class late on Sept. 24, while he was reading a classmate’s work.Several students said Trogan’s bizarre overreaction, rather than making a simple apology, made matters worse for him.The email was “a little excessive,” one of the two black students, freshman Chantal Sims, told the Observer. “We were not actually that upset about him mixing up our names. It was more so the random things he would throw into the response.”In the email, he urged any students upset by the incident to complain to the school. “Depending on your response to the officials above, I may — or may not — be your professor in class next week. It’s all up to you,” he wrote.Sims told the paper Trogan’s email stressed “everything he has done for minorities.”He was fired Oct. 29, the paper reported.
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