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[quote=Anonymous]Professors are not required or typically incentivized to check in on students directly. The ones who do are usually at LACs. I don't think it's that those professors care more, it's just that they typically teach much smaller classes and will notice when a student is missing suddenly.

Most colleges have some kind of early alert program though which instructors can submit alerts on students they are concerned about--could be anything from a referral to the tutoring center, a concern about the student's ability to access course materials, concerns about missing assignments, attendance, etc. Those alerts should route to the appropriate support service on campus that can provide a relevant intervention. In this case it should go to Res Life to do a wellness check.

In my experience professors do want their students to do well and do care about them generally, so they will engage in these kinds of programs if the college makes it easy to do so. Unfortunately, many colleges do not execute this kind of program well. [/quote]

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