I have catalogued Saratoga Springs Finance Commissioner Minita Sanghvi’s record of arrogance, mismanagement, and recklessness extensively during her four years in office. Yet even I was not prepared for her performance at the December 29, 2025, special end-of-year City Council meeting, her last.
Interestingly, according to the evaluations by her Skidmore students included in the second part of this post, her behavior in the classroom is no better.
Blogger’s Bizarre Exchange With Sanghvi
I attended the December 29, 2025, City Council meeting and spoke during the public comment period. My remarks were in response to comments Commissioner Sanghvi had made to the press regarding her colleagues, Mayor John Safford and Public Safety Commissioner Tim Coll.
Just as a reminder, here is what Sanghvi said to the Daily Gazette about Mayor Safford in the December 17 edition:
“It was a transparent process. [Safford] voted for it,” Sanghvi said. “And I don’t know what to think about, except that, you know, I have sympathies for cognitive declines with age.”
As for Coll, she told Wendy Liberatore at the Times Union that his department had excessive overtime expenses, which he needs to get under control, but that “he doesn’t seem to care.” Sanghvi fails to identify which overtime costs she considers excessive and unwarranted.
Here are my remarks and her response.
Sanghvi’s bizarre response.
How can her performance be explained?
One possibility is that her mind automatically shifts into denial when confronted by unflattering revelations. Readers may recall that she recently denied having told Commissioner Coll that “absolutely” the 2026 budget would not include her participatory budgeting program, even though her comment, recorded on video, promised it would be removed.
The other, and more likely, explanation is that she was unwilling to apologize for her indefensible attack on Mayor Safford, so she pretended she had not followed the blogger’s three-minute remarks.
To fully appreciate her behavior at the December 29 meeting, these close-up clips are more revealing.
Overwhelmingly Devastating Evaluations of Minita Sanghvi As Skidmore Professor
There is a website where students can post evaluations of their professors. I have excerpted some of the evaluations of Minita Sanghvi. According to the website, 74 students posted evaluations. For the full evaluation, go to the link above.
Seven (10%) rated her “awesome.”
Six (8%) rated her as “Ok.”
Sixty-one (82%) rated her as “awful.”
I have screenshot the beginning of the evaluations and am including a smattering of other comments from her evaluations.
These are more from the site.
Lacks basic human decency (or empathy for others)
She’s extremely mean and offers zero support.
Extremely pretentious + rude.
It’s very odd to me that she’s still employed. Her utter disregard for the boundaries and feelings of others is truly appalling.
Take this class and you’ll be met with belittling comments, resistance, unnecessary stress, and a negative demeanor that isn’t conducive to learning.
She has a God complex and truly thinks she is better than everyone else. Very strange.
Possibly the most disliked professor at Skidmore and for good reason. She has zero intention of helping others & certainly does not want to see them go onto to be more successful than she is
From the way she treated me, you’d think she was being forced to teach the course for free.
She was extremely rude to our class,
A narcissist who seems to think that only herself (and the people she likes or agrees with) deserve to thrive or even exist in this world.
She really does not like people and shouldn’t be working with them.
She truly takes joy in putting other people down.
She wants more opportunities to put people beneath her so she can feel superior.
There are several attendance policy posts which is funny because she has horrible attendance
Her obsession with attendance and not being even a minute late is odd and speak to her controlling personality.
These are only back to March 2025. I skipped some negative ones
She holds very clear hostility towards women who don’t agree with her viewpoints
Her unkind demeanor and lack of basic social skills was off-putting
She isn’t very kind
Minita Sanghvi acted extremely smug throughout the entire course
So terrible it’s almost funny. It’s abundantly obvious at this point that Skidmore keeps her around for reasons other than teaching abilities or people skills.
I haven’t met even one person who felt comfortable around her.
Minita is an unethical personal all-around.
she struck me as quite the terrible human being
Has an inflated sense of ego
she’s blatantly rude
basic interactions with this teacher will quickly reveal her inflated sense of self-importance
Minita is horrible. She is super liberal and tries to make people fail
Given the abundance of these very telling reviews for Prof. Sanghvi, it is clear that staff disciplinary action should have been taken against her within Skidmore long ago
Incredibly insensitive, controlling, and judgmental.
Professor Sanghvi was overtly condescending and dismissive
When 18-year old students are acting with more compassion and maturity than the professor, you know there’s a problem.
Poor communicator and very intense which can make a lot of people feel uncomfortable. She’s narcissistic with a God Complex
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