She is the worst professor I have EVER had I have 100 hundred credits and I have had many professors. She is supposed to have a doctorate in her field yet she cant answer simple Chem110 questions. She is a simple minded lonely useless peon.

Very standoffish. She doesn't seem interested in the students at all. Moves on rapidly without regard for confused students. Doesn't teach to, she teaches at. Strongly recommend any other theacher.

She is a very hard instructor and does not convey the ideas very well. Always talking about twinkies, diet coke, and Tom Selleck. She totally loses her class and goes too fast covering the material. I have had her for 111 and 112 chem. For an entry level course they are much too detailed. The exams and class work have nothing to do with each other

Absolutely horrible teacher! I never missed a lecture and was still behind. She does not care about students at all just diet coke and twInkies. Worst professor I have had in my college career.

The most challenging class of my college career. Lectures are extremely hard to follow as she switches from projector to chalkboard and the book. The workload is too much.

The one word I would use to describe Dr. Dunlavy is USELESS. She gets side tracked, takes forever to grade exams, she's rude, doesn't explain herself, and shows no interest in helping you outside of class. Worst. Professor. EVER.

I hated this class. Dr. Dunlavy wastes so much time and doesn't teach! All we do is sit there and answer clicker questions. She expects us to answer the questions without her lecturing on how to answer them! Then it would take 50 minutes to do 2 problems!

Well, She is the worst professor I have ever had. She is not helpful, lectures talk about things far related to whats on exams. Tries to act funny by shaking stomach, but she is acutely really RUDE and acts as if she's superior to you. Hard class overall because she just sucks at teaching.

Super rude and makes you feel like an idiot. I often asked for help and she stared and me and would make a joke. Terrible professor.

She somehow manages to make an easy subject very difficult to comprehend, and if you ask questions face to face or in lecture she makes it sound as if you're stupid. Even after one of our exams where all 200+ students did poorly, she yelled at the class on "How easy this exam was".

She tries to make every concept simple by using weird examples that just end up making the concept even more confusing. She's not very good at explaining during her lectures, i personally wouldn't recommend taking her.

She is an awful teacher! She was always behind on grading our exams and she never put up the syllabus for the class.

A bad professor. She is hard to hear and understand and expects you to know everything she talks about. Her analogies are horrible because it is difficult to understand what they represent. The lectures are nothing like the homework and the labs have little correlation to what is being taught in class. There is no review for the exams.

She was very unorganized. There was no book. She didn't seem to know what subject she was supposed to be covering.

She doesnt supply any grades supplemental material or anything.

Shes rude and unsympathetic. didnt learn a thing from her, basically had to teach myself

Dr. Dunlavy is a tough professor to deal with. Her tests have lots of word trickery, and her Chem101 (participation app like clicker) questions... she hardly gives any time to complete. I would have rather read the book during lecture, and ironically, I think I would've learned chemistry better that way. RUN AWAY.

I'm sorry to say this, but this professor has to be one of the worst I have had. I am a Junior and I cannot stress how stressful her class was. She was not helpful when we asked her to help us. She expected us to know everything. She ignored our questions and would make threats about not allowing comments during her zoom meetings. It's a no for me.

After reading previous ratings it seems apparent that Dr. Dunlavy is better at pre-covid teaching rather than adapting to the difficult nature of online learning. During class I can tell she means well, however her pride and refusal to acknowledge hardships zoom learning presents seems detrimental to the understanding of her students.

Shes selfish and rude and doesnt care for others. She needs to realize just because shes the professor and knows these Doesnt mean well know it off the bat. Wishing she could be more understanding

Professor Dunlavy seems to be a professor that was "ok" before the classes went into the online platform. If you take this class you better prepare yourself to have to teach yourself EVERYTHING. He lectures are extremely ineffective, and the online homework that she assigns is completely different from the test. Does not answer questions directctly

Dunlavy is not a good online professor. That is all I can speak for. She does not give context to the subjects she is covering in lectures, instead jumping into each as if she is professing to people who already understand chemistry. I learn more from the online homework than from her lectures. This is from someone who was previously straight A.

this class seems to be a lot harder online, she rushes into lectures and not all students fully understand chem yet. most of your grade comes from the tests, homework is not weighted. hw is tedious and the tests have nothing to do with the hw. students are met with resistance when issues are brought up. you have to teach yourself, on your own.

Here's the grading weight from Canvas: Att and Part: 5% HW: 0% Half Exam: 6.8% Exams: 53.2% Lab: 20% HW 6 wk: 15% The half exam is the first exam you take in this class. This course made me stress way more than my other classes. I'll be glad to put it behind me. I now have a profound hatred of Chemistry, I'm certain thanks to this class.

I was a straight A student until this class. I would compare this class to something more like a History class, not heavy on calculations, just "who was this dead guy who discovered this thing" and... just memorization, not really critical thinking. SHE WOULDN'T USE A WRITING PAD all semester, so her handwriting was hard to read. HATED THIS CLASS!

Dr. Dunlavy doesn't curve. If you know a prof doesn't curve, just find one that does. This Professor was just... awful. Her exams were steaming piles of garbage. No matter what you do, she'll give you a B. Students who get A's in Dunlavy's class are unicorns.

Dr. Dunlavy doesn't curve at all. What I really think needs to change is the way the clicker-type questions are asked during classes. These should not be for credit, IMO. Rather than learning the material, we were distracted by them, and she left little time to complete them.

Run away. Turn around and forget youve ever even thought of taking a class with her. She does not explain, she just goes trough the material, and if you ask and want her to explain deeper she come out with Im sorry I have to continue, theres a tutoring center if you want. Terrible, terrible professor, be ready to google everything.

Almost every time a question was asked it was straight up ignored or blown of with a side comment. She seems to care more about clicking through slides on a power point than striving for success of her students. I am a very good student who has never had below an A grade until I took this course. If you don't know CHEM II by heart, do not take.

She really isn't an effective instructor. I find that I must do most of the coursework myself.

She doesn't help at all. Like at all. Sometimes she goes off topic, or when she explains something how to solve something she goes into never goes step by step.

I typically don't do bad in my classes, but since early on in the semester I knew this class was definitely going to be one that I'd have to teach myself. She's impatient with student's questions and comments. You have to read her tests carefully and she definitely gives a ton of HW. Definitely pay attention if you take her, she goes at her pace.

Terrible professor. Our first exam was basically a history exam. Im an EE major that is very much not important for me. I stopped going to the class at some point and taught myself and saw literal improvement. Shes made a racist comment before too. Every class grade average was about 60 or lower. She refuses to listen to requests for exam preps.

Dr Dunlavy is the worst professor at NMSU. I have never had trouble in a class before (I put in due work and study often) this. She is very rude and condescending. Your best bet in her class is to skip lecture all together and learn the material on your own. I saw significant improvement in my grades when I ignored her teaching and taught myself!

Quite literally one of the worst teachers I've ever had, my 10th grade chem teacher from high school was more effective at teaching material! An absolute joke of a class, the emphasis is on incredibly obscure areas of the content, and this translates to the tests. Meaning that you will surely forget most of the concept questions! Avoid this class.

Terrible professor. Do nottttttttt take her. Take Ramesh instead

Class is only based off exams and the items on the test to not correspond to the lecture material

She takes forever to grade, gives 5 exams, snorts every 30 seconds, breaks the projector every day, rushes over every topic, cannot do simple addition, and teaches literally nothing.

From the start I knew I was going to have to teach myself. She never cares to answer questions. And if she does, she just goes off on a tangent. I've heard multiple people have had to retake the class because she's so horrible at explaining concepts. All she cared about is reading off her slides. Her snort is annoying. DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS.

The class itself isn't hard, the homework and participation are easy to understand and complete with a good grade. However, the exams are hard, mainly because not everyone grasps the concepts because she doesn't explain the material well nor does she reiterate the material learned effectively. Study before exams and you'll pass the class.

Not the greatest profesor. Lectures were quite boring and full of unnecessary information. Wouldn't recommend

She should have been fired or suspended years ago however she still remains as a professor. In her most recent semester she has been relieved of teaching all but one class and has decided to take this out on her students. She is a living breathing nightmare fueled by the hate that not even her cats love her.

Dr. Dunlavy is the worst professor I have ever had. She doesn't explain the material, goes off topic whenever she speaks, doesn't answer questions doesn't teach what she tests on. Your grade is mostly exams which are all based on material that is not taught in class or in the textbook. She is a tenured professor but should not be teaching students.

This is the worst professor I've ever had. She doesn't answer questions, goes off on unrelated tangents wasting time, criticizes herself in the middle of lecture making everyone uncomfortable. I only started understanding the class by ignoring her teaching and teaching myself, going on youtube and learning from other professors and their content.

lecture and office hours not helpful

To be completely honest her lectures were very messy and unorganized. It is very hard to understand what is going on and I have never struggled so much with a chemistry class until now. Her exams are extremely hard and she does not give any type of exam keys to help us at all.

Her overall rating pretty much says it all. She's a cool person, but her teaching and grading are not good. Exams are 60% of your grade and are very hard. Do not recommend it. You mighttt have a chance if you're good at math and can understand new concepts quickly like in a day.

Just don't take this course with her. Nice person, goes too fast in lectures.

no organized at all

I had to take this class twice because the professor assumed we knew a lot and we didn't. she also was not very kind when answering questions. probably the worst class I've ever had.

Disorganized lectures. Focuses on things in class that aren't even on the tests. Doesn't allow notecards or provide any materials for the exams like the other professors do. She was rude to me when I asked questions outside of class. Skip this prof, take it in the summer or take Ramesh.

There are 4 midterms and a final that make up the majority of your grade (Class avg

Do not take this professor; take another one. Attendance is mandatory, as there are five exams, which are incredibly challenging. All your grades are based on your test scores and attendance. DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR !!!

Lectures were confusing, full of contradictions, and her analogies made things worse. She was often rude when students asked for help. Grading was inconsistent, and recitation didn't match the lecture. One exam had an average grade of 40%, which she attributed to us "not studying enough." Trust, I studied. TAs were the only good part of the class.

I would rather have a lobotomy than have to take her class again. She is very unprofessional and doesn't understand how to teach.

I would rather poop in my hands and clap than take this class again, very unorganized and does not provide much help for exams. Very passive aggressive whenever you ask her questions both in class and during office hours. Cares more about trying to make abysmal jokes than teaching and makes inappropriate references to lecture material during class.

The exams are the most important thing in this course, but we don't even get a review for them. The lectures are disorganized and she goes off topic frequently. She doesn't seem to like it when you ask questions. Attendance is mandatory. I would recommend self study as much as possible or go to TA office hours. This course made me cry.

Her teaching style sucked. It was confusing and all over the place. Each lecture felt like it did not flow together.

She is not a good professor. Her lectures are all over the place, she makes too many jokes and the exams are incredibly difficult. Not a single class average for the exams was a passing grade and she claimed this was due to us having unreliable studying methods. Trust me, I studied very hard for VARIOUS hours and couldn't get a good grade on a exam

Her email replies are condescending, even including literal wink emoticons (";)") in professional emails to be snarky. She also submits fake low grades when her/her TA's are behind on grading, which, yes, she includes in your midterm grade reports. Also does participation BEFORE class, so you can be on time and still not get full points. AVOID.