In recent months I have been at a number of meetings on campus where negative comments have been made by some about professors who have strict attendance policies in our college classrooms. The comments I have heard suggest that the speakers consider strict attendance policies for our college students as inflexible, unreasonable and, invoking the nuclear option of argumentation, incompatible with this generation of students. Once again, yesterday, comments along these lines were made in a meeting I attended, and […]

Categories: Higher Education • Tags: absences, attendance