Do you think a college professor has the right to do this?

[Witch Mountain]

Go ahead and ask. I'm sure the counselor could use a good laugh.

I definitely will bring it up with my major professor, because he WILL laugh his butt off and say there's no way in hell it played out that way. The counselor at admissions doesn't know me well and might think I'm talking about a situation in my life and think poorly of me for even thinking I could walk into a class late more than once, get called out for it by the prof, then walk into admissions and without any problem, take another section.

Honu brings up a good point. How the heck did she submit course assignments in Blackboard or whatever course management system the CC uses? It's not like the old days, there are so many components of a class that are delivered online, even when the class meets in person.

 

[kaytieeldr]

I find it hard to believe that this late in the semester (my students take finals next week) that a student would be able to switch to another class, unless it was taught by the same exact professor with the same exact syllabus. Otherwise, how is she expected to catch up on a whole semester worth of work?

Agreed. I took morning classes at about the same time the same classes were being taught evenings by a different instructor. The two instructors had different teaching styles and taught from different books. It would have been difficult to pass the course if you changed schedules like that, especially this late in the term.

 

[declansdad]

Seems the two ops have disappeared again.

 

[honugirl]

Maybe they should go to back to college to brush up on their inconsistencies?

 

[Cinderella94]

If it was so easy to go get her class changed, why didn't she do that as soon as work became an issue?

 

[luvsJack]

If it was so easy to go get her class changed, why didn't she do that as soon as work became an issue?

Actually, it would have been EASIER if she would have done it when it became an issue.


We have had students that had medical emergencies and they completed their classes without attending class at all, just did everything through blackboard. But, again those were extreme issues and they were all very strong students that the instructor, dept. head and academic director all felt could succeed without the original teacher. But that scenerio would have been more likely than switching to another class with only a couple of weeks left in the semester.

 

[Cinderella94]

Actually, it would have been EASIER if she would have done it when it became an issue.

Exactly. That's what I mean, & why I don't believe the resolution that the OP gave.

 

[Witch Mountain]

Exactly. That's what I mean, & why I don't believe the resolution that the OP gave.

Nor do I.

Anyone who has had to deal with administration red tape with a grade grievance, or getting credit from another school applied to requirements or cross enrollment credits KNOWS that academia is bound by rules and regulations. NOTHING is a simple matter of "Oh, she got the class changed to one that meets at another time."

OP may *think* that television program simplistic wrap up will fly, but there are far too many academic types here on the DIS who work in higher education or are currently taking classes and know the score.

For instance, right now, I'm dealing with six weeks of being on academic hold because the school says they don't have my transcript from the cross enrollment. Financial Aid says it's in the system, Admissions says it isn't. (It was electronically transmitted.) The cross enroll CC was kind enough to give me another sealed copy of my transcript to hand to my admissions counselor this week in person, so that this can get fixed on the spot and I can buy another book for my summer classes with financial aid.

In six semesters, I have yet to have anything be as simple as OP's niece's class switch. Even my graduation certification, which should have been cut and dried, was screwed up by a data entry error. One just has to look at the FB wall of any college student for the past month and see daily reminders of things that get fouled up on the way to semester's end.

The scenario he paints is like a Disney movie-we're expected to suspend our disbelief at the simplicity of changing classes...

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Both CC and University for me have had very defined drop/add periods. You could drop/add courses without penalty. After that period, you could only drop the course. Classes dropped after the window resulted in the school keeping your tuition.

I have a difficult time accepting the switch so late in the term as a possible solution.

The *only* time a change in time was permitted was for sections of class that were recorded and then they showed the recorded class at different section times. But there was no formal change required. You simply showed up at the time most convenient to you, OR, you could watch it on cable television. You had to report to your specific section time for tests though.

 

[crashbb]

Okay, so I don't actually believe much of what the OP and his niece wrote, but we did have sections that you could switch between (at least in theory, I don't know anyone who did so this late in the term). Often, they were actually taught by the same person, but they always wrote the same exam. It was generally only in first year though (I'm thinking Psych 100, for example, which had a number of sections that covered the same material and had all multiple choice exams).

 

[Swan4Me]

I did not ask, but why not? Same class, just different days and time... I assume they teach the same things. Just one happens to be a morning class and one is an evening class. The morning class meets 3 times a week, I would guess. In any case, I would guess, also, that she could pass a final by now, having been through most of the semester with good grades.

I thought she worked full time?

Also do not believe, this late in the semester, anyone can change classes-nohow-no way.

 

[kaytieeldr]

But if she works, say, 10 to 6:30 she could make an 8 AM class and still get to work.

 

[tasha99]

I thought she worked full time?

Also do not believe, this late in the semester, anyone can change classes-nohow-no way.

You'd be surprised what can get done if the teachers approve it. I was in a group of students who took an autism seminar. We weren't technically allowed to take it, or we'd go over the maximum # of credits. Rather than have us petition for an increase, we were allowed (actually required, but that's another story) to take the class off the record. Nothing showed on our transcript. Next term, we took a different class and they just threw the extra credits on there--so we weren't shorted credits, just given them for a different, but related class. It kind of ticked me off since I have nothing that says I took the other class, but that's how they did it.

Point is, if the teacher was behind it, it could be done. If he taught both classes, he could just keep her in one class officially, but let her attend the other.