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With the ushering of the new Executive Dean in Jindal Global Law School a few months back, things have just turned to shit. To quote a few professors, the old Executive Dean, had a truly 'open door policy' where a professor could walk in with an issue, on the other hand, the new executive dean (the residents of jgls call her 'the one who cannot be named'), has a 'closed door policy where she will open the door only to slam it on your face'. Multiple complaints have been raised by professors because of just poor management done by her.
The student base is also extremely frustrated. The biggest sign of this is the new attendance policy where a student only get 1 medical leave for a subject and one leave for a moot court or such, so only 5 days of leave. Further, the minimum of 75% is still being strictly enforced. This is all to comply with BCCI rules. The student body raised a contention in an open house discussion against this by stating that sports injuries have regularly seen students out for weeks, to which the Executive Dean replied 'If you wanted to play sports, you should have joined a liberal arts school, not law".
Worse things have been said about this new Executive Dean of ours, but when any professor is asked the question of 'why she is the executive dean in the first place?' everyone had the same reply that she had backing, unlike anyone else... Well, congrats to the VC and the College you have replaced one of the most liked Executive Dean with this.
For anyone who is gonna contest that JGLS had a lot of problems to begin with, and this is not a big thing... The general dissent of the new Executive Dean is very visible to anyone who regularly visits the campus, not limited to these instances which i gave as an example that both student and faculty will relate to. Moreover, JGLS, a college only around 15 years old, has been doing surprisingly well. However, now it is being undone. It is the basic things, such as the good faith that the Admin staff had while interacting with the student base, that is now deteriorating. Everyone was previously 'nice' when interacting in the stressful environment that a law school with a bunch of privileged teenagers can be. Now, the good faith has gone and the admin and student council is reguarly having friction. What you dont see is the additional friction between the admin as well.
All in the span of a few months makes it more starkly visible to anyone who pays attention.
You wanted the world (that did not end at Jindal or Delhi gates) to know. Try again although just like your law school, this world too, doesn't care. It will when you/friends at Jindal do something truly spectacular. Good/ bad are just labels.
As they say in haryanvi - talented balak na padte vivadaa ma
How are people supposed to do an assessment internship? (The student council is arguing heavily on this and should be changed, hopefully).
The marking scheme is being changed heavily; however, no consultation of the student base has been done in any manner. With more than 13 sections in a batch, the fluctuation of CGPA differing from classroom to classroom has been an issue. Some professors give inflated marks hoping to get good feedback (tlfq review), while other professors refuse to give anyone a perfect grade, believing it to be against their policy. This has led to CGPA becoming meaningless as a matter of comparison.
This problem is not present in NLU becuase of its small batch size but increasingly prominent in JGLS. DJ's solution? Bell Curve... Now you will see 6 students ONLY can get perfect grade while everyone else gets A+ for the good
1. Raj has a bias in favour of DU alumni, which stems from a combination of nostalgia and insecurity. Although he has hired ample NLU and JNU grads, there is a degree of distrust and suspicion towards them.
2. DJ is part of the Establishment and can be trusted.