What r/Professors is talking about this week

Since the Student Success office opened several years ago at the college where I work: \- We are no longer allowed to drop students for excessive absences or failing grades. Now these students go...

This is a genuinely interesting phenomenon - I write what I think is a clear policy (most often on AI these days), and students violate that policy, and then explain it in a manner similar to...

Over the past few years, we've all noticed a precipitous drop in students' overall performance, agency, preparedness, resilience, etc.. But, this year, I am noticing the same with my TAs. Nearly...

Student turned in an essay that showed they clearly didn't understand the meaning of specific terms, and instead of doing the assigned readings, they likely googled those terms and got literal...

What the hell am I supposed to do with that information? With 3 weeks remaining in the semester? I’m still trying to figure out what they were trying to achieve by telling me this and then...

Just a few academic misconduct items of recent vintage Student 1: Google Doc editing history shows completion of 21 page paper from start to finish in \~90 minutes. Grammatically perfect writing....

The students have started leaving their headphones on all the time. For literally, everything-- walking, pissing, breathing, you name it. It baffles me but then they started doing it during the...

Every semester I have a handful of students who just drop off of the face of the earth for most of the semester where they stop attending class or doing any assignments, and then they come...

Can somebody explain consulting to me? I'm a humanities prof and don't understand what the business school undergrads are talking about when they say they want to go into 'consulting.' (If it...

Proceeded to describe the reasons they're consequential in terms of potential new regulations affecting some of the companies and industries we're analyzing in class this semester; I went on for a...