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re: LSU professors not showing up to teach or cancelling classes
Posted on 9/5/23 at 2:01 pm to Indefatigable
Posted on 9/5/23 at 2:01 pm to Indefatigable
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I don’t think my parents ever knew one single thing about any of my classes in college.
Neither did mine, and my dad was a professor at the same university (1970's). It was up to us to handle our own education.
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Posted on 9/5/23 at 2:05 pm to TeddyPadillac
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Not a single one of my engineering PHD professors would have ever been to a bar in that scenario. I'm sure a few might go have drinks before, but they sure as shite wouldn't have done it around other students
Mmmm I had one engineering professor who didn't mind grabbing a drink with us after class
Posted on 9/5/23 at 2:06 pm to haikarate
At least now they probably send out an email or text to say class is canceled. I’m going to age myself here but we actually had to show up and wait in the classroom for a while before realizing the professor was a no show that day.
Posted on 9/5/23 at 2:07 pm to haikarate
Best class I ever took at UGA was micro-Econ. It was a night class and that dude only had a first class, a mid-term and a final. Gave us sample exams for mid-terms and finals that ended up being the actual exams that we could just show up and turn in. Easiest A ever.
Posted on 9/5/23 at 2:45 pm to Triple13
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LSU professors not showing up to teach
They're probably fricking an under-aged kid somewhere.
Posted on 9/5/23 at 2:49 pm to haikarate
Nobody wants to teach freshman level classes
Posted on 9/5/23 at 2:50 pm to haikarate
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My son is a freshman at LSU. Since school started, there is a troubling trend of teachers canceling classes, sometimes last minute. They simply post the classwork online for the students to complete. Is this the new way since Covid? What the hell am I paying for here?
I had a math teacher who could barely speak English, so he should consider himself lucky he's getting the course material in an understandable manner. :)
Also, profs cancel all the time, but usually not last minute. Sometimes there's just not any more material to cover because they allocated time for questions that never came, sometimes they just misplanned for the testing segment.
If the prof is cancelling all the time though, you should encourage your son to reach out to the Dean to see if this is going to be a problem or if they can perhaps assign another professor to assist if there's an ongoing issue. As always have your kid do it, it's his education and he should invest in it, don't be that lunatic parent calling the university demanding action.
Posted on 9/5/23 at 2:50 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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Who is teaching the class? A professor who cannot make it to class usually are going to a research conference or an illness or something like a wedding or something and they should send a graduate student to teach the class instead if they cannot make it. When I was at LSU unless it was a sudden thing like an illness or accident a graduate student will usually cover the class.
That’s correct - in my case, as well as my colleagues, if I knew I had to be away from class in advance I’d always have another prof or graduate student teach the class, they were happy to do it, and I’d cover for them in return when asked.
Posted on 9/5/23 at 3:02 pm to scott8811
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Those professors are being paid to work on research at a place like LSU, not click to the next slide on a powerpoint for an intro class. It'll happen less and less the more classes start to matter.
No they’re not. They are getting paid to teach a class. At the end of the day a college/university is a business. You would bitch if your McDonald’s is fricked up and people should definitely bitch about this when paying tens of thousands of dollars. Most of these professors are paid extremely well for what they do and the reason why tuition keeps going up is because of unions.
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Also, why the hell is you kid texting you so much as a freshman in college...this is more unsettling to me
Why is something like this unsettling? I’ll assume you have no kids, are a shitty parent and never went to college to spout something like this off about a freshman in college texting their parents.
Posted on 9/5/23 at 3:13 pm to haikarate
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What the hell am I paying for here?
A proper brainwashing.
Posted on 9/5/23 at 3:38 pm to momentoftruth87
quote:Exactly. Our son is still 17 and is into his 2nd week of class, 400 miles from home. Going from a school of 900 boys to tens of thousands. I'd hope he'd check in and look for guidance at least for the first few weeks/months.
Why is something like this unsettling? I’ll assume you have no kids, are a shitty parent and never went to college to spout something like this off about a freshman in college texting their parents.
Posted on 9/5/23 at 3:54 pm to haikarate
I had a graduate level finance course years ago, and the professor was going through a nasty divorce. He was a mess. He literally talked more about his soon-to-be ex-wife than finance. He treated us like his drinking buddies, not students. One class he live streamed video footage of the outside of his house up on the wall because he was convinced she (or her boyfriend…I can’t remember) would come onto his property. He gave everyone in the class an A. He had to. I felt bad for him because you could imagine him being a good professor, but at that particular point in his life he was spiraling.
Posted on 9/5/23 at 3:54 pm to haikarate
Same thing I used to tell my parents after a tough loss in the fall.
Posted on 9/5/23 at 4:35 pm to haikarate
In 10 years across Auburn and Texas, three degrees, I had exactly one day of cancelled classes due to an ice storm. Naw, this isn't normal and if it's the new LSU norm, you need to send your tuition $ elsewhere.
Posted on 9/5/23 at 4:41 pm to TigerHornII
Only had this happen once in 6 years, and it was for an ice storm also. This isn't normal, but is probably the new norm. Colleges aren't for real education anymore...
Posted on 9/5/23 at 4:50 pm to TigerHornII
Similarly, I can only remember one Poli Sci (of course) prof that canceled three or four classes in a row at LA Tech with no warning. She finally showed up after a bunch of students complained to the dean, and then broke down in tears in front of the class complaining about living in her car, etc. That was after a similar amount of time during three different trips to University. I can't recall it ever happening at LSU.
Posted on 9/5/23 at 4:51 pm to haikarate
I would have been pumped and never told my parents (not that they really knew anything about my college life anyway).
Posted on 9/5/23 at 4:54 pm to momentoftruth87
Your professor was an economist. He "assumed" you understood the material.
Posted on 9/5/23 at 5:01 pm to haikarate
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Since school started, there is a troubling trend of teachers canceling classes, sometimes last minute. They simply post the classwork online for the students to complete. Is this the new way since Covid? What the hell am I paying for here?
Sounds like you should post the names of the professors who aren't showing up, or at least identify the departments they teach in. Then we can really do something.
Posted on 9/5/23 at 5:38 pm to AbitaFan08
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No kidding.
Back in my day, my parents didn’t give me a red cent for tuition at LSU.
I got sent a check every semester from the state to attend classes because I wasn’t a complete moron.
Your son shouldn’t be given a free ride from mommy and daddy either.
Anyone else confused?
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