Well today could have gone better.

Going on a LJ-esque rant here, but I need to vent.

Journalism majors have to have their portfolios graded and approved by the department before they can graduate. I am currently set to graduate in the spring, so my portfolio was turned in way back in October, and I got the results back today.

Apparently my content - in the form of 15 of my best news clips - were awesome. My resume got perfect marks.

And yet, my portfolio failed.

Why?

Well, I also need a cover letter in the portfolio. While cover letters are normally specific to the place you are applying, and this is not specific at all, we are told to make it broad enough to be used for whatever we wanted to do after graduation.

In my cover letter - in which I wrote to a blank prospective graduate journalism program - I said that I would like consideration into the blank graduate program to help learn the aspects of Web-based and multi-media journalism that I didn't receive at the undergraduate level.

Turns out that apparently that was too heavy handed, as two professors on the board failed my portfolio in its entirety because they felt insulted by what they saw as a "unprofessional slight."

I should give some background of these two professors.

One of which I have filed a formal grievance with the university against due to things he has said to me (Maybe I am thin skinned, but I am not putting up with a professor calling me on my cell phone and asking me "Is there something wrong with your brain? Are you dense or do you have a learning disability?) as well as getting him fired from a "coaching" position at the student publication for sending harassing text messages to people.

The other replaced the first one as the "Coach" position. We have not seen him in months after his wife had a child, which is understandable, however, his job with us is based on a temp freelancing contract, and I suggested to my general manager that if he is doing no work for us, we shouldn't be paying him, and my general manager agreed.


So, yeah. Awesome. I'm sure that my background situation with these professors coupled with what I said in the letter had nothing at all with the whole thing being failed.

If I wasn't so goddamn livid about it, the thought of two professional professors failing someone because they pointed out their shortcomings would be laughable.

 

That sucks, I feel for ya man.

Can you go to the administration with this?

You should.

usafpilot07 wrote: 1. Write a story about it 2. Publish it 3. Clip it 4. Add it to portfolio. 5. <laugh hysterically> 6. Profit.

Fix't.

Just resubmit a cover letter talking about how you'd like to even further expand the aspects of Web-based and multi-media journalism that you learned so much about as an undergrad.