Georgetown prof. fired for statements about black students

Georgetown Law School terminated an adjunct professor Thursday after a video was posted on social media showing her making disparaging comments about Black students in a recorded conversation with another professor.

The professor, Sandra Sellers, is shown in the recording making negative comments about Black students’ academic performance. The comments came at the end of a session of a class she taught jointly with the other professor and which was recorded for future viewing by students, according to Inside Higher Ed.

“I hate to say this,” Sellers says in the video recording of her conversation with another Georgetown law professor, David Batson. “I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks. Happens almost every semester. And it’s like, oh, come on. You get some really good ones. But there are also usually some that are just plain at the bottom. It drives me crazy.”

Bill Treanor, dean of the law school, said in a statement Thursday that Sellers had been terminated and that Batson had been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the university's Office of Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action.