Professor Muir’s Application To Teach Organic Chemistry @ NYU

Students at NYU got an organic chemistry processor fired. Can it be taught better? Yes.

There’s a recent kerfuffle around NYU’s dismissal of a long standing teacher of organic chemistry, based on students complaining. They didn’t like failing grades, and this has made for good reading in the New York Times. It hasn’t made for a particularly good discussion in the public discourse about the utility of teaching organic chemistry well, or abo…