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A second professor was placed on leave

Georgetown Law Dean Bill Treanor informed Professor Sandra Sellers that he was terminating her effective immediately.

Georgetown University Law Center has fired a professor after a recorded video call surfaced of her making derogatory remarks about Black students, and a second professor on the call has been placed on administrative leave, according to a Thursday statement by Bill Treanor, the school's dean.

Georgetown law professor terminated after remarks about Black students Georgetown law professor fired after Zoom conversation made public Replay Video UP NEXT A Georgetown Law School professor has been terminated after comments she made about a lot of her "lower" students being Black went viral and sparked a firestorm of backlash on social media. In a recording of the video call, adjunct professor Sandra Sellers is speaking to a fellow adjunct about students evaluations and performance.MORE...

WASHINGTON -- Georgetown University Law Center fired a professor and placed another on administrative leave after a Zoom conversation involving complaints about Black students was recorded and made public. Adjunct professors Sandra Sellers, who taught at the prestigious Washington, D.C., law school for nearly 20 years, claimed her Black students routinely grade lower than others in a conversation with colleague David Batson. "I hate to say this. I end up having this angst every semester that a ...

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The veteran professor was recorded complaining how "I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks."

Georgetown Law professor sacked over 'reprehensible' comments about black students

A Georgetown Law professor is now a former Georgetown Law professor after she said of students’ grades, “a lot of my lower ones are Blacks. Happens almost every semester.” Sandra Sellers was fired Thursday, one day after a recording of a Zoom call was shared on Twitter. Professor David Batson, on the other end of the call, was placed on leave. “I hate to say this. I end up having this angst ...

Professors post-class comments criticizing Black law students captured on Zoom   Image from Shutterstock.com. Updated: Georgetown Law Center has terminated the position of an adjunct professor who was video recorded saying, “a lot of my lower ones are Blacks” with regard to students who took a negotiations seminar she taught. Sandra Sellers is a Virginia intellectual property lawyer and trained mediator, according to her website Technology Mediation Services. David Batson, who co-taught th...