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December 2001, Volume 12, Issue 2 - Faculty Opinion: A Forum for All Points of View PDF Print E-mail
By Moya Mazorow

Every semester we assign students work which we expect them to turn in by the deadline set by us. We scrutinize the student's work and mark them down for not completing all parts of the assignment or failing to turn in an assignment by the due date. Do we assign the same degree of scrutiny to our own assignments? Do we complete all of our required paperwork by the due date. Do we slack off and only complete part of a job? Do we allow administrators to slack off on their jobs?

Rules and procedures at thsi school are governed by academic regulations, which in turn are governed by Board policy, Title 5, and California Education Code. According to the attendance and withdrawal policy "A student may withdraw from one or all classes by filing the proper forms in the Admissions Office. A grade check will be made by the instructor...." How many of us perform the grade check? how many of us have the necessary information to know which students require the grade check?

When I first started here, I received "Weekly Class Add/Drop Printouts" informing me of which students had dropped during this time fram so I was aware of which students required grade checks. The "Summary of Faculty's Administrative responsibilities" bulleting for Spring 2001 states that these printouts will be distributed. I never saw them. I brought this to the attention of the Admission' Office. the apparent solution was to strike that line from the Fall 2001 handout. i think faculty should complain about the failure of the Admissions Office to follow policy.

Most of you probably don't care about this. You think I am being picky. I disagree. I think it sets a very bad precedent to allow administrators at at their whim to change academic regulations that many faculty helped to formulate. Who do we want to dtermine policies? If we continue to ignore these infringements onour responsibilities we will find ourselves losing our shared governance.

Editor's Note: All faculty are encouraged to submit commentaries and to express their views.
  		 

 

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