Reply to are professors not required to check in on students?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "are professors not required to check in on students? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I have a clinical teaching position at an R1 university, and if a student has been absent and/or not turning in work for an extended period of time, I do try to check in to make sure everything is ok and to help if there is support I can provide. But I don't have anyone's phone number, so if I send email and don't get a response, there isn't much more I can do other than to contact the student's advisor (if I can figure out who that is) and let him/her know I'm concerned. I do take attendance because we have a departmental policy that affects grades if there are too many absences, but between my committee work and grading--between covid, helicopter parenting, what the internet has done to everyone's brain (and, relatedly, both mental health issues and the fact that no one reads for pleasure anymore), my students' analytical abilities are nowhere near what they should be at this stage of their lives which means that I spend much more time evaluating their work than I might have years ago, in part because we assign more tasks and in part because I have to address more issues in their writing--I honestly don't have time to pay meticulous attention to their attendance. However, I also think, at least for traditionally-aged students who have the luxury of being able to attend a residential school, that part of what I'm supposed to be doing is preparing my students to be successful adults, and not hovering over them is a key component of that process.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics