Another CUNY educator has joined the university system’s band of crazies.
The New Jersey man accused of helping Hezbollah plot terror attacks on major New York City landmarks is a former Baruch College lecturer, a spokesman for the publicly funded school confirmed.
Alexei Saab, 42, of Morristown, graduated in 2012 with a master’s degree in business administration and received his master of science information systems from the college in 2015.
He later became an adjunct lecturer at Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business, where he taught graduate courses in IT strategy, computer information systems and business data modeling. Students rated him a talented lecturer but a tough grader.
One anonymous poster to ratemyprofessors.com wrote: “He tries to catch you off guard in his exams/hw and gives you trick questions … which is incredibly frustrating.”
Payroll records show the college paid Saab $7,517 last year, $11,174 in 2017 and $5,836 in 2016.
When Saab wasn’t shaping young minds, federal prosecutors say, he spent his time surveying dozens of sites in New York City on behalf of Lebanese extremists.
Originally from Lebanon, Saab was inducted into the gang in 1996 as a spy and later received “extensive” training in weapons and explosives, according to the criminal complaint.
After he moved to the US in 2000, Saab began scouting locations, some around the corner from Baruch’s Midtown campus.
Authorities say he provided the group “detailed” photographs and descriptions of structural “soft spots” at the UN headquarters, the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, the Empire State Building and airports, tunnels and bridges.
Saab has been in custody since his July arrest. He was charged Thursday with nine offenses related to his involvement in Hezbollah and a separate marriage-fraud allegation.
A Baruch College spokeswoman said he no longer works there.
The disturbing allegations against Saab are part of a pattern of questionable hires at CUNY, whose board is mostly appointed by the governor.
Among the army of allegedly misbehaving professors are former John Jay department chairs Barry Spunt, Ric Curtis and Anthony Marcus. They were accused last year by two former students of running an on-campus sex and drug den, allegations first revealed by The Post.
At Hunter College, star professor Jeffrey Parsons recently quit after a school probe found he used and supplied cocaine at university-sponsored events and violated CUNY’s misconduct policy.
And at Baruch, former adjunct Eric Linsker was arrested in 2014 for throwing a trash can at cops.
Baruch adjunct Juan Lazaro, was outed as a Russian spy in 2010.
Lecturers have told The Post that CUNY’s hiring process for adjuncts like Saab is overly lax.
“You’ll look in your pile of résumés that you have in your desk, or you’ll call some friends,” one Brooklyn College professor said as he described the vetting process.
A CUNY spokesman did not respond to The Post’s question about what it’s doing to prevent more bad hires from happening.