In May, Professor Shellyne Rodriguez was caught verbally abusing pro-life students at Hunter College. She later vandalized their table. The New York Post found her Bronx apartment and wanted to ask her questions about the incident. At that moment, she became the “machete professor,” going ballistic and chasing the Post reporter from the premises after threatening to chop him up.
Rodriguez was a professor at Hunter College but was later terminated once she threatened to murder a reporter who captured the entire incident on film. You’d think that such an incident would be a massive red flag in future job searches. During the interview process and the inevitable Google search about the candidate, you’d think someone would ask her why she was fired from Hunter. No one did because she has a new job.
There is no accountability in higher education, it would seem, which isn’t shocking, but you’d think that someone who threatened to go Rwandan Genocide on someone with a machete would put them on a blacklist, a no-go list—anything. The College Fix reports that Rodriguez is now an adjunct professor at The Cooper Union School of Art:
A former art professor fired by Hunter College after allegedly vandalizing a pro-life student table and later threatening a journalist and his photographer with a machete on the streets of New York City appears to be teaching at a new school this fall.
The Cooper Union School of Art, a private college in Manhattan, lists artist Shellyne Rodriguez, 45, of the Bronx, as an adjunct instructor in several places on its website.
Its fall course schedule, dated Sept. 1, shows an S. Rodriguez teaching a three-credit sculpture class. Shellyne Rodriguez is the only faculty member with those initials listed in the faculty and staff directory.
It appears Rodriguez was hired recently at Cooper based on website archives of its faculty directory, which does not mention her prior to Aug. 29.
Kim Newman, media relations manager at Cooper Union, did not respond to The College Fix’s repeated requests for comment via phone and email in the past two weeks.
Someone should go to the school and ask her some questions, but she might chase them down with a machete.