Spelman College in Atlanta is the oldest historically black private liberal arts college for women in the United States. That designation carries a certain amount of prestige — or it should, that is.
However, a former assistant professor of economics at Spelman told “Fox & Friends” on Thursday that he was fired for refusing to offer his economics students easier work or inflate their grades on assignments.
Tenure-track faculty member Kendrick Morales said the college raised the students’ grades, anyway — and subsequently let him go.
They definitely applied some pressure on me to raise grades above what I thought was reasonable, which I thought was totally against what I was supposed to do. I thought I was responsible for setting academic standards and making sure that the grades and degrees the school was conferring actually held its [sic] value.
“They didn’t give…
