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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Attendance apologies around COVID are set by the university and I can’t fathom a school not allowing a student to opt into DL. Clarity around this isn’t great right now and I’m finding students think they have to come in when actually they don’t and I won’t be teaching in person 90% of the time. 
Can your child just directly ask the department chair if there is a policy in the works for opting into distance learning? That would be an appropriate person to ask (the Professor doesn’t set this at a department-level) and in college “Dean of Students” isn’t a thing. [/quote]

So sick of people who think THEIR little world is THE world.

Of course Dean iof students is a “thing” in college. Try googling it you smug jerk.

At the university I teach at, my kid’s school, AU, Vanderbilt, U of Texas, Catholic University, NYU, Harvard.let’s just say the larger world.

So try practicing some humility [/quote]

Hello! Not-humble-enough-PP here! I am also a university professor, so chill. To clarify, I realize Dean of Students is a position that does exist, but they are not typically related to or under Academic Affairs, right? They are more for concerns re: student life, outside of academic policy. If OP's kid's school has one, perhaps their office (not directly the Dean) would be a good point of contact for concerns re: residence life or something, but not course attendance policies. PS I will work on being more humble if you work on correcting people in a way that is...I don't know...less like a rabid animal?[/quote]

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