Reviews for Ellen L. Blumner
Average Rating:| Anonymous Course: ENGL394 Grade Expected: A May 11, 2012, 11:27 pm | Blumner may go down as one of the worst teachers the university has ever had. If Blumner does not like you on the first day of class your grade will be affected tremendously. She plays favorites, and holds grudges for the entire semester. Additionally, it is not that she simply holds grudges, she will attempt to make your life miserable and call you out in every class and grade you harder than other students in the class. She has no problem sounding like a bitter/grumpy old lady. In terms of the actual class, everything is completely useless and tedious. She believes that assignments are not busy work if she attaches a grade to them, so she will simply make assignments worth 1% of your overall grade that will take you hours to complete. On top of that she does not follow her syllabus at all, and will change her guidelines and expectations on a person to person basis and will never clearly state what she wants. Your grade will essentially come down to how much she likes you (and you will realize she likes NO ONE!) Additionally, Blumner never really taught any classes. For class, she would have groups of students present chapters from the textbook. Beyond that, she would instruct us to do meaningless book exercises, and then offer little feedback on the correctness of our answers. If you asked her a technical question, her response, more often than not was “consult the textbook.” Beyond that, she had one of her TA’s present a chapter lesson. I can hardly recall learning something of value from her. Lastly, another point that I would like to touch on is the voice of the professor. Now, i know this is nothing that she can control, but when teaching a class to numerous students throughout the day it really is important that the professor can speak. Her voice might possibly be one of the most irritating sounds you will ever hear. And i know many students can attest to this fact that it was indeed painful to listen to and became quite the distraction. In conclusion, Do NOT TAKE HER CLASS or consider yourself warned!! |
| Anonymous Course: ENGL394 Grade Expected: B December 15, 2011, 1:13 pm | Blumner is easily the worst teacher I have ever come across at this school. I signed up for the class when it still said "Staff," and what a mistake that was. First day of class I came to realize that this professor had clearly just suffered a stroke because her speech was horrible. Funny how the women who can't string a sentence together without stuttering is teaching English. I should have dropped the class the first day. The project you complete for this class if beyond ridiculous. You find a real world client and then complete 10 pages of single spaced writing per group member on the client's problem. The syllabus in this class is meaningless. She changes every assignment and due date. I got an A in ENGL101 and mistakenly took this class for business school purposes. I barely scraped by with a B from this professor. She refused to acknowledge her mistakes and ended up giving me a 50% on an assignment that she deleted from my ELMS folder because after I uploaded it again it was past the due date. The professor would consistently rip on her other sections. I had a friend in the class before mine, and he would always tell how she hated my class. At one point she even told our entire class that we were all lazy. She told a few people they should drop the class and receive the 'W.' Don't take this class with this professor. She is a miserable human being. This class and this professor is the reason I got drunk Mondays and Wednesdays. |
| klash Course: ENGL394 Grade Expected: B November 3, 2009, 7:21 pm | I would not recommend this professor at all. She is very grumpy and takes every assignment very personally. She holds grudges about everything, especially if you miss a class (although I never did, I saw her do it to many other students). If you say something to her that she doesn't like, she gets very angry and can be outright mean. She called out or yelled at several students right in the middle of class in front of everyone. If she decides she does not like you (which I think was more than half of the class by the time the class was over) she will never be nice to you again. She grades very unfairly. I actually heard her say to a student: "I can't believe what your GPA is here at the University, I am going to make sure that is changed by the end of this course." The other major problem was that she gave us a class syllabus, than basically did the exact opposite of anything the syllabus said. Every assignment was changed or completely unclear. She would say one way to do it in class, than post another way to do it online, than say to refer to the book, which was never the way she actually wanted us to do it. Than, when we got to class she would be in another one of her moods and would decide to throw in another part that essentially no one did, than proceed to mark down everyone else for not doing it, using the justification that one or two students did it as proof that we all should have known it was necessary. Also, syllabus due dates were ALWAYS changed. I don't think a single one was the same as the syllabus said. This makes it extremely hard to plan out when to do the work ahead of time (as I have to do with an extremely busy schedule). I could go on even more about the problems with this professor, but to sum it up she is a grumpy old lady and a terrible teacher. Plus, the class material in ENGL394 was tedious and pointless. It was nothing anyone will ever use in the real world. STAY AWAY! |
| superstar Course: ENGL394 Grade Expected: B May 27, 2009, 9:20 pm | sincere advice to fellow students: Stay away from her!!! -Strict grader/not fair grader (will not hasitate to give you "zero" on any assignment) -Not Friendly AT ALL (sometimes worse) -assignment instructions NOT CLEAR -WISPERS the ENTIRE LECTURE!!!!!!!!!!! it is very difficult to hear her. That's All... wish you good luck if you take her cuz you gonna need dat :P |