Students say it’s ‘crazy’ NYC college hired unhinged machete-wielding professor Shellyne Rodriguez

Cooper Union students on Thursday said they’re shocked the school hired a controversial professor who once threatened to “chop” a Post reporter with a machete.

“Oh s–t! That’s scary,” a student at the Manhattan college told The Post. “I don’t think it’s ok. When you are a student you’d want to feel safe. I would not feel safe with that person being my professor.”

Another student, a 19-year-old art major, called professor Shellyne Rodriguez’s new gig “crazy.”

“I’m wondering how they interview new professors,” the student said. “Do they look at their background? No. I don’t think such a person should be here.”

A second-year architecture student at Cooper Union said she wasn’t giving a reporter her name because “I don’t want her coming after me.”

Rodriguez, 46, was fired from her job as an adjunct professor at Hunter College and the School of Visual Arts after she was caught on video threatening veteran Post reporter Reuven Fenton on May 23.

Veteran Post reporter Reuven Fenton knocked on the door of Shellyne Rodrigueze’s Bronx apartment on May 23 to question her about a viral May 2 video that showed the unhinged professor berating students at Hunter College. Robert Miller Shellyne Rodriguez, 46, lunged out of her Bronx apartment with a machete and placed it on the neck of veteran Post reporter Reuven Fenton on May 23, threatening to “chop” him up. Rodriguez was later fired by Hunter College. Robert Miller After lunging at Post reporter Reuven Fenton with a machete, unhinged college professor Shellyne Rodriguez chased Fenton and a photographer out to the street, still wildly swinging the weapon. She was later fired by Hunter College. Robert Miller

Fenton knocked on the door of the unhinged educator’s Bronx apartment to ask her about an earlier video that showed her flipping out on students at Hunter who were displaying anti-abortion materials.

Rodriguez lunged out of the apartment with a machete, putting it to Fenton’s neck and threatening to “chop you up with this machete” before retreating back inside.

She then followed the reporter and a photographer out onto the street, where she is seen on video chasing the news crew while still wildly waving the weapon.

Rodriguez was fired from her teaching gig and charged with harassment — before getting a new job to teach a sculpture class at Cooper Union for the fall semester.

One student at the East Village school said some on campus thought hiring Rodriguez was “kind of cool” and that the embattled professor was “a badass.”

College students at Cooper Union in the East Village on Thursday said they were shocked the school hired crazed professor Shelynne Rodriguez, who was fired by Hunter College for threatening a Post reporter with a machete in May. Matthew McDermott Controversial college professor Shelynne Rodriguez, center, was fired from her job at Hunter College and charged with harassment after threatening a Post reporter with a machete on May 23. She now has a new gig with Cooper Union. Seth Gottfried for NY Post

“I don’t think it poses a problem here and people are not talking about it that much,” she said. “I think it’s the outside obsession.”

But classmates weren’t so sure.

“I think that someone who acts irrational like that would have the same mentality in class,” an art major at the college said. “I will definitely be worried.”

Officials at Cooper Union did not respond to requests for comment.