GALVESTON, Texas — A Texas A&M-Galveston professor decided “enough was enough.” Irwin Horwitz has notified every student in his strategic management class that they had failed, berating them via e-mail as a disgrace to the school. KPRC television station in Houston reports that Horwitz had reached a “breaking point,” accusing the students of backstabbing and cheating and saying they lack maturity.
University official Patrick Louchouarn says the failing grades won’t stick because the students haven’t finished the course and grades are applied on completion. The department head will take over the class until the end of the semester, he said.
“None of you, in my opinion, given the behavior in this class, deserve to pass, or graduate to become an Aggie, as you do not in any way embody the honor that the university holds graduates should have within their personal character,” he wrote in the e-mail, published by Inside Higher Ed.
Horwitz told the Houston Chronicle that the university wasn’t responding to his complaints about their behavior, pushing him to take this drastic step.
