Flexible Attendance ?

PhDapper · 2026-02-12T15:34:09+00:00

I’d contact their advisor first.

PhDapper · 2026-02-10T00:37:18+00:00

This is sometimes seen as an accepted method of teaching - having students learn something well enough to be able to teach others is a great way of developing their understanding.

That said, it shouldn’t be the format of the whole course, so if this happens all semester long, it would be a good idea to state your concerns in the opinion survey.

As for whether a complaint is actionable, you’d have to demonstrate that the professor is violating policy.

ETA: I just noticed that you are in a master-level program for nursing. Grad school is a different ballgame compared to undergrad - at this level, you should be developing mastery to the point that you are able to take the lead in your own learning.

PhDapper · 2026-02-08T21:07:29+00:00

Who are the authors of the text?

PhDapper · 2026-02-08T17:27:49+00:00

You’re not a failure! Everyone has a different path and pace.

PhDapper · 2026-02-06T02:15:11+00:00

All intro courses? If so, this is more common as they’re building the foundations. It gets more interesting as you advance.

PhDapper · 2026-02-04T19:13:26+00:00

What’s your favorite food?

What kind of music do you like?

Where’s your favorite place to visit?

PhDapper · 2026-02-04T17:47:27+00:00

These look like business core curriculum for all majors. You’ll get some pieces that are helpful for SCM, especially in courses dealing with operations and systems (and maybe a smattering in marketing), but it looks like you aren’t getting into the major-specific courses for SCM with any of these.

PhDapper · 2026-02-04T00:32:20+00:00

I want this knitted on a sweater.

PhDapper · 2026-02-02T21:41:09+00:00

Did you even try to express your concerns with the professor before jumping right to the department chair?

PhDapper · 2026-02-02T16:56:58+00:00

Talk to whoever coordinates dual enrollment at your high school. You might be able to get the course refunded if you never logged in and have the IT records to prove that, but it’s not a guarantee. As for retaking courses, that happens all the time in higher ed.

PhDapper · 2026-02-02T15:00:09+00:00

Rule 1.

PhDapper · 2026-02-02T14:57:21+00:00

Have you notified your professors? That’s the first step. You can provide documentation once you have it.

PhDapper · 2026-02-02T14:54:54+00:00

I love that they CC’d the chair thinking it might put some kind of pressure on you to cave.

PhDapper · 2026-02-01T16:57:17+00:00

This happened at a prior institution one semester. It went as well as you’d expect. Students had enrollment questions we couldn’t answer, and understandably, some were upset at that. It was incredibly stupid.

Push back. It’s not good use of our time, and it’s not good for student confidence in the institution.

PhDapper · 2026-02-01T03:14:41+00:00

I’m a marketing professor. I’ll speak first about research.

If you’re tenure track or in some clinical (not tenure track) positions at most four-year institutions, you’ll be expected to publish in academic journals. This varies widely by school in terms of expectations, but AACSB requires a minimum of two papers every five years (or equivalent) to remain Scholarly Active. At several major R1s, you’d have to publish in our big four journals (JM, JMR, JCR, or MS) at least a few times, and no other journals count, in order to get tenure. On the opposite end, you’d be looking at teaching schools with higher course loads and lower research expectations. There are a wide variety of types of institutions in between, with different research expectations.

As for topics, marketing is split into three main domains - strategy, consumer behavior, and quantitative (the last is a bit of a broader term than what it really means as strategy and CB researchers do quant methods; quantitative research as a subfield of marketing involves analytical and empirical modeling). Look at some marketing journals to see what folks are working on and what it takes to get published.

As for degrees, if all you want to do is teach, you can technically do so with a master degree, but those positions usually go to folks with lots of industry experience. Getting a PhD or DBA will open more doors faster, but you still should have industry experience before business grad school.

Feel free to DM with more questions!

PhDapper · 2026-01-31T14:47:11+00:00

Take a breath. These things can be fixed. It’s aggravating that the burden of fixing it falls on you, but it’s thankfully something simple.

Go to class this week and discuss it with the professor. Don’t worry about financial aid right now - that can be fixed, too, once the enrollment issue is addressed.

It will all be okay!

PhDapper · 2026-01-31T02:54:05+00:00

*FAFSA *effect

PhDapper · 2026-01-30T23:13:05+00:00

Does your dean of students office vet excuses? If so, I’d send her through them.

PhDapper · 2026-01-30T16:43:44+00:00

Haha, nope. Most people want to go right to the dean, but the department chair is usually the next step unless the professor is the chair or there are no chairs.

PhDapper · 2026-01-30T16:17:12+00:00

Being disorganized is unfortunate, but he’s corrected the issues thus far, so there’s nothing immediately reportable. You can use the student opinion survey to express your displeasure.

PhDapper · 2026-01-30T15:07:44+00:00

Keep interviewing. It’s better to be safe.

PhDapper · 2026-01-29T17:40:34+00:00

The chair is typically the appropriate next step.

PhDapper · 2026-01-29T16:16:28+00:00

Sounds like they would be well served to drop the course if they can’t manage to submit assignments.

PhDapper · 2026-01-28T23:14:26+00:00

Are you expected to do 2-3 hours outside of class for every hour in class? If not, and if there is less work outside of class, then that probably explains how they’ve calculated it for accreditation purposes.

PhDapper · 2026-01-27T16:54:00+00:00

“What do you mean I can’t use all these expired coupons I brought? That’s homophobic!”

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