are professors not required to check in on students?

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03/17/2024 12:28

Subject: are professors not required to check in on students?

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Anonymous wrote:So FERPA and HiiPA prevent professors from getting involved in students not showing up. They are legally adults, so they cannot check on either their grades in other classes, attendance, or mental health--it's illegal!

-SLAC professor

Yet we can call someone’s family if they no show to work for a few days.

Perhaps you midunderstand FERPA and HiiPA.

I really doubt anyone from my job would call my family if I didn’t show up. I’m a public school teacher and we’ve had teachers stop coming. Eventually they have been in contact with someone to turn in their laptop. No one calls their family to report them missing.

I’ve had two instances where I had to call an employee’s emergency contact. These both happened years ago, before the emergency prevalence of cell phones and remote work.

1. Long-time employee on my team was a no-show. We called him throughout the morning and by lunch were getting worried. He was an older man who lived alone. A friend of his was his emergency contact and she was able to call the management of the building he lived in. He was asleep. Had been on some medication that knocked him out and he just never woke up that day until they were knocking on his door. He was mortified and so apologetic, but we were just relieved he was ok.

2. A new employee called out sick two days in a row after only her first week. On the third day, never called. We tried to contact her repeatedly and then called her father who was her emergency contact. He said she was fine but gave us no other information. Another staff member took it upon herself to call this person’s last job and she answered the phone. Apparently she went back to that job and wasn’t going to bother to tell us. Never found out why. Our guess was she felt she was over her head in the new role or they threw more money at her to return.

I can’t imagine a work environment where my colleagues wouldn’t start to get concerned and have someone reach out if I didn’t show up after a day or two.

Your work colleagues = other classmates/friends at college, not the professor.

The professor is more like the divisional VP calling the emergency contact because one of the junior reports doesn’t come in to work.

I might college friends will take notice if their friend skipped hanging out and/or doesn’t seem to be leaving their dorm room vs a professor and a kid missing class.

Totally agree. I’m just responding to the teacher who said no one would ever check on her.

College and work are not remotely the same thing. Back when I was in school, most of my classes had like 200 people in them. And even the smaller ones, no professor was checking up on us.