Rakia Khalid

This professor has taught: ENGL101

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Rakia Khalid ENGL101 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/19/2019	Professor Khalid is just about the last professor I'd ever recommend anyone to take for ENGL101. Her tone in class seemed sweet at first, but I found it over time to change and become more elitist, condescending, and overall just rude. Classes were dreadfully boring, with Professor Khalid doing literally nothing to engage her students, and her lessons were so dry and unhelpful that I considered not going to class probably every day. When it comes to grading, I found Khalid's grades incredibly unfair, as her standards were set so high it seemed impossible to get anything above a B+. I received the high score, or just below it on most major grading assignments, yet I'm still sitting at a B hoping for a B+, but I really don't have any idea where I'll end. This brings me to my next point, that Professor Khalid takes FOREVER to grade even small assignments like a 300 word summary. Took her almost a month to release grades, which is ridiculous. It's the end of the semester now, and I'm still missing grades on THREE major assignments, two of which were due weeks ago. I know you're not supposed to talk about teachers grading with bias, but this must be mentioned about Professor Khalid. She once told me (after I had inquired about my grade in the class) that she has much higher expectations for me than my classmates, and therefore grades my assignments with a more difficult lens. WHAT? Not only did she ADMIT to me that she was biased, but she told me that she's grading my assignments harder than everyone else's! If anything is to be taken away from this, it's that Professor Khalid is unprofessional, unqualified, and frankly unlikeable, and therefore she should not be allowed to continue teaching ENGL101.
Rakia Khalid ENGL101 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/04/2018	I put in considerable time and effort into the class, and so very little back from the professor teaching this course. She was incredibly unprofessional in regards to how she handled the class. For example, this course is all about revising and improving your work, how is that in any way possible when it takes OVER 1 month to receive grades in feedback. This is unacceptable, students have deadlines that we have to abide, how can teachers have this much time to return grades. It is completely unacceptable. I was in no way able to learn from my work because each new major assignment needed to be turned in BEFORE I received the grade and feedback from the previous assignment. Even the academic summary which was a mere 300 words took over 3 weeks to grade! I find this extremely contradictory to what the class is supposed to do. I spent long and late nights working on the papers she assigned and met almost every deadline, but she does not have the respect for her students to turn back grades and feedback in a more timely manner. All it ended up being was busy work after busy work. Along with this, the teacher had the audacity to accuse the class not once, but twice of racially profiling her. She cited reasons as lack of trying or attention in class. To accuse a class of around 20 students of racially profiling her is a testament to this teachers character. She believed that our lack of effort towards the class was rooted in our perception of her race and ethnicity, rather than the more obvious fact of her POOR teaching skills. The fact that we as a class got accused o racially profiling her is deeply concerning and uncomforting and frankly unacceptable. When asked, "When will we receive our final grades" in the third to last class, she responded with her normal bothered attitude, "You will get it when you get it". She runs the class with this very uninviting tone and then claims about how friendly and open she is, which is an absolute fallacy. I have learned absolutely nothing in this course, we used fearless writing, a textbook worth over $100 a bunch of times but gained absolutely nothing from it! It was a waste of money and it's again unacceptable that a mandatory class has a mandatory bok that is not covered within tuition! There are so many things wrong with both the structure of this course and the professor who "taught" it. Taught is in quotes because she did not teach me a single thing. If you create a course based o rewriting and revising your work, either give professors enough time to grade papers so that there is time for learning from our previous work, or hire teachers who can grade in a timely manner. Very disappointed in the professor, and the university for both the structure of the course and their belief that this professor would be a good fit for teaching this class. Will recommend everyone I know to AVOID this professor at all costs.