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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a college professor. If a student doesn’t attend a single class during the first two weeks of the semester, we must administratively drop them from the class. That is the only policy for us in this regard.  I do check in in additional cases, though. I email students before the 4th class to let them know I need to see them in the next session or they will be dropped.

If I have a student with limited attendance, I email them before the drop date and the withdrawal date to encourage them to start attending class or withdraw to protect their transcript.

If a student has historically had good attendance and misses two classes in a row, they get an email from me to check in.

Otherwise, this would be a fool’s errand. There are so many students who only show up on test days, rarely attend class, don’t respond to emails, or are consistently late. There is no way to keep track of them all like a hs teacher. Maybe an RA would be a better option. [/quote]

ETA the vast majority of the check in emails I send are ignored, and I would not initiate a welfare or emergency check of some kind because of it. [/quote]

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