“ seems messy, and only good for lecture classes for CAS and Stern students,” Maloney-Hupert said. Steinhardt senior Maya Maloney-Hupert echoed Fales statement, stating that Zoom was not conducive to a successful learning environment for music students. “All distort sound/pitch quality and lag slightly,” Fales said. Steinhardt senior Ian Fales said that most video conferencing apps are detrimental to sound quality, a crucial aspect of music-based courses.
Several music majors opt for Google Hangouts instead of Zoom, while others prefer FaceTime.
Students involved in majors which include technical, hands-on work who typically performed in studios, workshops and rehearsal spaces, are concerned over the limitations of remote learning.įor solo musicians, singers and ensembles who require rehearsal time, the delays in video conferencing or unwanted audio feedback can waste valuable practice time. This is not the experience I was supposed to have.”Īcross the university, undergraduate, graduate and continuing education students have moved to online classes using Zoom while the coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt daily life in New York City. “It’s just going to be a normal class about James Joyce from now on,” O’Mara said, citing that the class may see a play and go to an Irish restaurant instead, while class discussions will now be held remotely on Zoom. Instead, O’Mara found herself sitting before her computer, installing the video conferencing software Zoom after her trip to Ireland was canceled, and NYU moved to remote learning amid the spread of COVID-19. “NYU had in Professor Maitland Jones a faculty member with a year-long appointment specifically to teach organic chemistry, and in one of his organic chemistry classes in the spring 2022 there were, among other troubling indicators, a very high rate of student withdrawals, a student petition signed by 82 students, course evaluations scores that were by far the worst not only among members of the Chemistry Department but among all the University’s undergraduate science courses, and multiple student complaints about his dismissiveness, unresponsiveness, condescension, and opacity about grading.Last month, Gallatin senior Kate O’Mara was looking forward to visiting Dublin over spring break for a class that centered around the Irish writer James Joyce in his native city. This was a case of a professor who, hired on a one-year contract specifically to teach a course, did not meet our standards for pedagogy and did not have his contract renewed,” the university said. “This was not a case of a professor being ‘fired’ because students complained about grades. In a statement to The Independent on Tuesday, a NYU spokesperson dimsissed the findings of the Times article and Dr Jones’s response tp the situation.
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