MAILING LISTS

Yikes!

I can't fathom how the university is doing its students any
good by allowing them to miss learning activities without
bona fide and documentable reasons!  Employers won't do that!
What gives?

Certainly at the professional school level, accountability has
to be there in the culture.  We just give a zero if someone misses
without an authorized excuse from Student Affairs (they keep a
log and require documentation for anything that sounds fishy -
like..." my grandmother just died" and it's the fourth time.

Sorry for being reflexive about this.  Dean
On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Erica Hunter wrote:

> I use the lowest dropped score model (it does take a lot of pressure  
> off)
> but my University has a policy that you must allow students with legit
> reasons to make up missed work - that lowest dropped score policies  
> are
> unfair because they have less assessment opportunities. If the  
> student is
> like, okay, I'll drop that one, then its fine. But otherwise... oye!  
> I've
> had students who were really sick come to RATs to avoid missing  
> them. It's
> hard to know where the line should be and what is the most "fair"  
> across the
> board. Answers from others have me thinking about making some  
> changes (esp.
> if you are late and miss the iRAT, you have to take it on your own  
> and then
> you miss the gRAT). Maybe I need to crack some whips! Be less soft!
>
> Maybe it is my school, but no shows are pretty common for me, despite
> efforts to figure out tricks to get them to attend. I had two teams
> yesterday (of 18) have only 1 person show up to class! In my other  
> class, I
> have a student who no showed 4 of 5 RATs this term - ?!?! - no clue  
> what is
> up there.
>
> Erica