- New York University organic chemistry professor Maitland Jones was fired after students petitioned the school with claims that his class was too difficult.
- According to a report from The New York Times, Jones — who taught at Princeton University for decades and wrote a bestselling textbook on his subject — maintained a rigorous course for his students.
- Marc Walters, who directs New York University’s undergraduate chemistry department, explained in an email to Jones that the school would let students retroactively withdraw from his class as a “gentle but firm hand to the students and those who pay the tuition bills.”