Feel like I need to babysit my professors so I get my extra time accommodation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This may have more to do with my online classes, but why does this happen every semester? Every single semester for the last 3 years, this has happened. It's hard to know what regular time is and what time and a half is because it not always announced what is regular time. Sometimes, the professor will write you need to have 90 minutes for the final or something like that as a group email. I am in my last week now and I see that I didn't get extra time programmed for two of my finals this week. The exams are proctored. I will probably send a short email saying you probably didn't realize but I don't see extra time programmed for my final. The professor I am most worried about takes weeks to return emails. She also insists we address her as "doctor blah blah blah". :lol:

If it happens every semester, you should be reaching out to your school's disability office, not DCUM.

Also, when you email your professors, consider cc'ing your contact at the disability office.

Finally, sometimes being a woman is a disadvantage in academia. I understand your professor has an off-putting style, but it may be that she has learned that she is disrespected/underestimated less when she reminds people of her position. I'm a Ph.D. who usually goes by my first name, but definitely break out the Dr. in certain circumstances.

OP here. I did reach out to the disability department and I have done this many times. They don't seem to care. The student surveys seem to be important because all of my professors send tons of emails reminding me to do them. I know there was a lot of laughing going on after class when she insisted over and over again we call her Dr instead of professor. She got so worked up over it. I don't think people were doing it to be disrespectful. She came across as stuffy and treated some of us like idiots. She would send lots of emails with CAPS and !!!!!!! I should probably fill out the survey for her now.

Caps and !!!!

Oh the horror!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dr. Blah blah blah is appropriate for college professors, sweetheart.

It’s your job, and your job alone, to inform professors about your needs.

It’s not preschool, it’s college.

Welcome to the real world.

OP here. Not true. They were all informed at the beginning of the semester by the disability department.
I also sent them another email in the first few weeks when it became clear I wasn't given extra time.
Insisting on students calling you doctor screams insecure. She put it in her syllabus, spoke to us the first and second class about it
and continued to remind people during lectures. My dad had a PhD. The only people who may refer to him as doctor as his coworkers or other work collogues he may be working on research with. I have heard students say professor during lectures but never Dr.

I’ll bet you feel very strongly about calling people by their preferred pronouns, though…

LOL! Great point. It’s all about perspective…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're going to have to advocate for yourself. At the beginning of the semester, introduce yourself - in person, not via email. Tell them you have accommodations from the disability office, because you need xyz. Be clear about it. Ask how you should navigate exams and assignments with them. Write it down as they tell you, because each professor might handle it differently, and you'll never remember who needs what when the time comes. Face to face is SO much better than email.

Also, learn to respect that there are allllll different types of professors (and bosses) out there, and just like you need them to accommodate your needs and preferences, you need to accommodate theirs, even if it seems silly to you. The more respectful you are of them, the more respectful they will be of you.

This really is your transition to the real world where there aren't deadline accommodations. That is a scary transition after public school when (in theory) they had to give you the support you needed. So the more you learn to advocate for yourself and come up with strategies to help get the work done, the better.

This.
I have 200+ students each semester. 10-20% have accommodations of some kind. I do my best to provide the common ones to all students, but sometimes I miss something here or there. It is common courtesy to address the professor as she prefers, and not act like she is an idiot for not remembering every detail of your accommodation. Kindly ask her how long the regular and extended time limits will be during the class period before the exam. You’re expecting far more of her than you are expecting of yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dr. Blah blah blah is appropriate for college professors, sweetheart.

It’s your job, and your job alone, to inform professors about your needs.

It’s not preschool, it’s college.

Welcome to the real world.

Students at lower ranked colleges often call professors "teachers." Many of these kids see college as an extension of high school.

OP here. Maybe 2 year colleges. I'm unsure of what degrees are needed to teach at a community college, but I don't think they need a PhD.
She's very different from all of my other professors. Most of them are casual and say to call them by their first name. Some of my professor will sign emails as Dr. B but she's the first that came out and insisted over and over again to be called Dr.

You’re a guy, I can tell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've always wondered about extra time accommodations. I can see why schools give them, but will you expect your employer to do so also? For example, instead of the big project being due on Wednesday, they give you until Friday?

I don't know how that works but projects are different than exams. I have never received extra time to do assignments. It is an accommodation for some students because someone from student services (they are moving to call it this instead of disability department) sent me an email by mistake to say I would get extra time to do assignments. She mixed me up with another student. ADHD, and anxiety are some disabilities that get extra time. Additional time is pretty standard for most students who are registered with student services. Having a learning disability doesn't mean you aren't smart. My father has a statistics PhD and got extra time in grad school. The university suggested he get tested for ADHD or other learning disabilities and I believe they paid for it. He was smart enough to get a chance to come to the US to study and be a TA. I have something very different from him. I am also on a merit scholarship. The paperwork is sometimes hard for students to get because testing for learning disabilities is so expensive. I usually finish my assignments early because I get so stressed if I do things last minute. I have a friend who I think is entitled because she asks for a lot of extra time to complete assignments, and she hasn't gone through the process of registering and filling out the paperwork to get accommodations. She gets mad if they agree to extra time but takes points off because she's late. I have never asked for additional time to turn in projects or assignments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're going to have to advocate for yourself. At the beginning of the semester, introduce yourself - in person, not via email. Tell them you have accommodations from the disability office, because you need xyz. Be clear about it. Ask how you should navigate exams and assignments with them. Write it down as they tell you, because each professor might handle it differently, and you'll never remember who needs what when the time comes. Face to face is SO much better than email.

Also, learn to respect that there are allllll different types of professors (and bosses) out there, and just like you need them to accommodate your needs and preferences, you need to accommodate theirs, even if it seems silly to you. The more respectful you are of them, the more respectful they will be of you.

This really is your transition to the real world where there aren't deadline accommodations. That is a scary transition after public school when (in theory) they had to give you the support you needed. So the more you learn to advocate for yourself and come up with strategies to help get the work done, the better.

Can't do that if the classes are online. OP said the classes were online in her OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're going to have to advocate for yourself. At the beginning of the semester, introduce yourself - in person, not via email. Tell them you have accommodations from the disability office, because you need xyz. Be clear about it. Ask how you should navigate exams and assignments with them. Write it down as they tell you, because each professor might handle it differently, and you'll never remember who needs what when the time comes. Face to face is SO much better than email.

Also, learn to respect that there are allllll different types of professors (and bosses) out there, and just like you need them to accommodate your needs and preferences, you need to accommodate theirs, even if it seems silly to you. The more respectful you are of them, the more respectful they will be of you.

This really is your transition to the real world where there aren't deadline accommodations. That is a scary transition after public school when (in theory) they had to give you the support you needed. So the more you learn to advocate for yourself and come up with strategies to help get the work done, the better.

This.
I have 200+ students each semester. 10-20% have accommodations of some kind. I do my best to provide the common ones to all students, but sometimes I miss something here or there. It is common courtesy to address the professor as she prefers, and not act like she is an idiot for not remembering every detail of your accommodation. Kindly ask her how long the regular and extended time limits will be during the class period before the exam. You’re expecting far more of her than you are expecting of yourself.

OP here. It's one detail i.e. time and a half. It's not like my accommodation is exotic. It's the most common one there is and I have needed it 4-5 times this semester. She has missed this on every exam. If I took the exams in person it's pretty hard to mess up extra time, but I don't take it in person. It's very important she gets it right because exams only unlocked sometimes for 1 day and if she doesn't program it in right, I won't get that accommodation unless I refuse to do the exam on the day it's due.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dr. Blah blah blah is appropriate for college professors, sweetheart.

It’s your job, and your job alone, to inform professors about your needs.

It’s not preschool, it’s college.

Welcome to the real world.

Students at lower ranked colleges often call professors "teachers." Many of these kids see college as an extension of high school.

OP here. Maybe 2 year colleges. I'm unsure of what degrees are needed to teach at a community college, but I don't think they need a PhD.
She's very different from all of my other professors. Most of them are casual and say to call them by their first name. Some of my professor will sign emails as Dr. B but she's the first that came out and insisted over and over again to be called Dr.

You’re a guy, I can tell.

I am not a guy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're going to have to advocate for yourself. At the beginning of the semester, introduce yourself - in person, not via email. Tell them you have accommodations from the disability office, because you need xyz. Be clear about it. Ask how you should navigate exams and assignments with them. Write it down as they tell you, because each professor might handle it differently, and you'll never remember who needs what when the time comes. Face to face is SO much better than email.

Also, learn to respect that there are allllll different types of professors (and bosses) out there, and just like you need them to accommodate your needs and preferences, you need to accommodate theirs, even if it seems silly to you. The more respectful you are of them, the more respectful they will be of you.

This really is your transition to the real world where there aren't deadline accommodations. That is a scary transition after public school when (in theory) they had to give you the support you needed. So the more you learn to advocate for yourself and come up with strategies to help get the work done, the better.

This.
I have 200+ students each semester. 10-20% have accommodations of some kind. I do my best to provide the common ones to all students, but sometimes I miss something here or there. It is common courtesy to address the professor as she prefers, and not act like she is an idiot for not remembering every detail of your accommodation. Kindly ask her how long the regular and extended time limits will be during the class period before the exam. You’re expecting far more of her than you are expecting of yourself.

OP here. It's one detail i.e. time and a half. It's not like my accommodation is exotic. It's the most common one there is and I have needed it 4-5 times this semester. She has missed this on every exam. If I took the exams in person it's pretty hard to mess up extra time, but I don't take it in person. It's very important she gets it right because exams only unlocked sometimes for 1 day and if she doesn't program it in right, I won't get that accommodation unless I refuse to do the exam on the day it's due.

Are you messaging her before the exam to remind her?

[Anonymous]

Professors are some of the laziest people. They should have done this at the beginning of the semester when they were emailed your accommodations by the disability dept. It's an online class so they don't have to spend time giving exams. It's outsourced to the proctored companies. They need to get it together.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like you need to be more proactive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like you need to be more proactive.

No. It sounds like the professors need to do their jobs. In a work situation, HR helps out with this. Employees don't have to visit their manager to remind them of an recurring accommodation. The college has a department that handles this for a reason. The professors should be more organized. They expect students to be organized, follow deadlines etc. Not only are they failing to follow deadlines but they are breaking the law by denying a time and a half accommodation. At the start of the semester they receive emails with accommodations and they can write a list of who gets extra time. It's not rocket science.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This may have more to do with my online classes, but why does this happen every semester? Every single semester for the last 3 years, this has happened. It's hard to know what regular time is and what time and a half is because it not always announced what is regular time. Sometimes, the professor will write you need to have 90 minutes for the final or something like that as a group email. I am in my last week now and I see that I didn't get extra time programmed for two of my finals this week. The exams are proctored. I will probably send a short email saying you probably didn't realize but I don't see extra time programmed for my final. The professor I am most worried about takes weeks to return emails. She also insists we address her as "doctor blah blah blah".

If it happens every semester, you should be reaching out to your school's disability office, not DCUM.

Also, when you email your professors, consider cc'ing your contact at the disability office.

Finally, sometimes being a woman is a disadvantage in academia. I understand your professor has an off-putting style, but it may be that she has learned that she is disrespected/underestimated less when she reminds people of her position. I'm a Ph.D. who usually goes by my first name, but definitely break out the Dr. in certain circumstances.

OP here. I did reach out to the disability department and I have done this many times. They don't seem to care. The student surveys seem to be important because all of my professors send tons of emails reminding me to do them. I know there was a lot of laughing going on after class when she insisted over and over again we call her Dr instead of professor. She got so worked up over it. I don't think people were doing it to be disrespectful. She came across as stuffy and treated some of us like idiots. She would send lots of emails with CAPS and !!!!!!! I should probably fill out the survey for her now.

You address her as she requests. Period. She earned her degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This may have more to do with my online classes, but why does this happen every semester? Every single semester for the last 3 years, this has happened. It's hard to know what regular time is and what time and a half is because it not always announced what is regular time. Sometimes, the professor will write you need to have 90 minutes for the final or something like that as a group email. I am in my last week now and I see that I didn't get extra time programmed for two of my finals this week. The exams are proctored. I will probably send a short email saying you probably didn't realize but I don't see extra time programmed for my final. The professor I am most worried about takes weeks to return emails. She also insists we address her as "doctor blah blah blah". :lol:

If it happens every semester, you should be reaching out to your school's disability office, not DCUM.

Also, when you email your professors, consider cc'ing your contact at the disability office.

Finally, sometimes being a woman is a disadvantage in academia. I understand your professor has an off-putting style, but it may be that she has learned that she is disrespected/underestimated less when she reminds people of her position. I'm a Ph.D. who usually goes by my first name, but definitely break out the Dr. in certain circumstances.

OP here. I did reach out to the disability department and I have done this many times. They don't seem to care. The student surveys seem to be important because all of my professors send tons of emails reminding me to do them. I know there was a lot of laughing going on after class when she insisted over and over again we call her Dr instead of professor. She got so worked up over it. I don't think people were doing it to be disrespectful. She came across as stuffy and treated some of us like idiots. She would send lots of emails with CAPS and !!!!!!! I should probably fill out the survey for her now.

Caps and !!!!

Oh the horror!

A professor should know better. We learn about this in elementary school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dr. Blah blah blah is appropriate for college professors, sweetheart.

It’s your job, and your job alone, to inform professors about your needs.

It’s not preschool, it’s college.

Welcome to the real world.

Students at lower ranked colleges often call professors "teachers." Many of these kids see college as an extension of high school.

OP here. Maybe 2 year colleges. I'm unsure of what degrees are needed to teach at a community college, but I don't think they need a PhD.
She's very different from all of my other professors. Most of them are casual and say to call them by their first name. Some of my professor will sign emails as Dr. B but she's the first that came out and insisted over and over again to be called Dr.

Email your professor and cc: the disabilities office.