tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-491174673971804494.post3447813334715530458..comments2024-03-22T01:06:23.845-07:00Comments on Confessions of a College Professor: A Cure For Grade Inflation, part 1Doomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528555392898760692noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-491174673971804494.post-87551796958812314892014-05-09T11:13:08.771-07:002014-05-09T11:13:08.771-07:00Attendance didn't use to be important, but onc...Attendance didn't use to be important, but once Federal loan money came on the table, we had to track attendance. Of course, once admin realized they got more money if we always claimed 100% attendance, then that rather changed as well.Doomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04528555392898760692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-491174673971804494.post-84402287197277439672014-05-09T10:48:07.648-07:002014-05-09T10:48:07.648-07:00Boy have things changed from my days at the Univer...Boy have things changed from my days at the University. Attendance roll was not kept, though most students did show up for class (often with slide rules because the new-fangled electronic calculators cost as much as the textbook and $100 was a princely sum for a young student even with loans, grants and scholarships). <br /><br />Maybe some of that was that you fought to get into the university in the first place, you wanted to learn, you were expected to work for it (even if you did miss class, people kept notes and you could meet with the instructor for questions), you were expected to take the exam in person and you knew you could fail it even if/when you put the work into it.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11633967694431454813noreply@blogger.com