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[quote=Anonymous]Professor here at a small university.

Required? Not really. But we do have to report about 1 month in of someone has never attended for federal aid purposes (if a student has not attended a class they are receiving aid in, their aid is removed...this census is done for all so we do not know who received aid).

For smaller classes if someone stops coming or changes demeanor in a concerning way there are built-in mechanisms to report this to academic or social services on campus (I do, and my colleagues do). Just last week I had a colleague call me about a student who missed two classes in a row, wanting to see if they'd been attending my class, and we worked together to check on them....they resurfaced. For larger classes, it would be difficult to notice. I do have a TA check attendance once in a while to send emails to students who are not showing up or have missed greater than X classes (and I report those who do not respond to an academic unit that will check on them).

If a student lives on campus there should be RA involvement for these things. That is much more effective than professors, who are not really equipped to monitor a student for more than about 3 hours per week outside of an academic setting.   [/quote]

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