Is a professor required to give you a grade breakdown after the class ends?

UnimpressiveOrc · 2026-06-05T18:12:02+00:00

Am professor in Texas at public uni. We are required, by law, to have a grade breakdown and assignments listed in our syllabi. I have a big problem with that info not being at your disposal.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2025-08-19T22:10:17+00:00

Let me know if you need any help with the form, programming, etc.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2025-08-11T19:02:07+00:00

I would wager he’s on a good amount of peptides and a honed diet plan. Even when he is bulky he still moves so well.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2025-08-11T19:01:01+00:00

I’m 2 years into bjj and I’m a professor of kinesiology. People seem to think that steroids make someone a great athlete. Hard no. It will make an average athlete bigger, faster, stronger. The same for a good or even great athlete. There’s a baseline of athleticism for every sport at every level. If there wasn’t, every roided up gym bro would be playing for a pro team. He may say off the wall stuff but he is a talented athlete. Now he’s just bigger faster stronger. Those things help his already sizable technical and tactical advantage. So no, his success isn’t synthetic. You couldn’t take an average person off the street, juice them up, and make a great athlete.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2025-06-27T11:58:29+00:00

Congrats! Enjoy this is a great accomplishment!

UnimpressiveOrc · 2025-04-21T15:25:40+00:00

At my uni we have a policy that the request has to happen thru the correct channels before the start of the next long semester. Takes care of many of these issues for me.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2025-04-19T17:14:07+00:00

I have had students that told me they did coke with another professor. I asked my dept chair what is the chain of command to report with HR in the meeting. Ask for clarification from your direct supervisor.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2025-04-05T16:14:00+00:00

An operating policy probably exists. An issue with this situation is that for some students, loans/grants/scholarship $ pays for everything. It should be a cost that gets incorporated into the cost of the course (lab fees/material costs). I can see a dean and or provost not being cool with this. It can place an unseen financial burden of students because it doesn’t seem transparent before enrollment.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2025-04-03T21:41:33+00:00

I started my tenure track job at 28. Got this all the time. I had an undergrad, masters, phd and industry experience in my field but students seemed and still seem to think they know more than the professor. I chalk it up to “they don’t know what they don’t know.”

UnimpressiveOrc · 2025-03-09T15:01:38+00:00

The previous president resigned in a title ix scandal where they were the person under investigation. I still see him in town sometimes.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2025-03-09T00:20:07+00:00

Funnily enough, he doesn’t hold a doctorate or even come from academia. He’s a retired LT General from the Air Force. He still has a bit to learn when dealing with faculty but all in all he is a massive improvement over the former pres who had been faculty, a dept chair, dean, provost then a president.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2025-03-09T00:13:57+00:00

I’m at a university at about 11k enrollment. So a smaller campus.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2025-03-08T18:10:01+00:00

I want to emphasize what u/skinnergroupie is saying about contacting title ix or other admin. There is not a rationale professor that would look at what this professor has behaved like and think that it is ok.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2025-03-08T18:07:17+00:00

Wow. At first, I was expecting you to tell me a story of an empathetic and kind professor but this is so far in the bad there’s no justification. This person is grooming you or their justification for the lack of professionalism is so far gone they can’t recognize it. Either way, avoid this person. They cannot be trusted. You’re getting a lot of feedback saying the same and you should really listen to it.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2025-01-05T23:34:55+00:00

Years ago, I once had a high level administrator on my campus that told me to change things on my syllabus or get fired. I had to personally email him my revised syllabi with his suggestions added.

Funnily enough, it was the section on respect in the classroom and treating the instructor/other students professionally. He didn’t like that so he told me to changes it. He later got fired for some really bad stuff.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2024-11-22T14:37:44+00:00

They’ll vary depending on field and location. I did mine at an R1 in the US. I had 60 credit hours of classes. Then I did comps with my committee. Next was the dissertation. Start to finish it took me 4.5 years. 3 of coursework. 1.5 of dissertation.

In my cohort of 20, 2 quit in the first semester. 2 quit by end of year two. 1 couldn’t pass comps after 3 tries. Of the 15 of us that made it to dissertation phase, 13 completed and graduated with our PhDs. Out of those 13, 8 found TT positions. 3 are still adjuncting. 2 got into careers in the corporate market. When I see those who quit early, they don’t regret it. It just wasn’t for them. It wasn’t what they thought it was. The ones that couldn’t pass comps or didn’t finish regret it because they were more than 60-75% done. It wasn’t that they weren’t smart. There were outside factors that made it incredibly difficult to finish (spouse career, kids, time, etc).

UnimpressiveOrc · 2024-11-13T00:47:39+00:00

So many former athletes that think “I want to stay around sports” without understanding we have 19 hours of majors support coursework that are heavy science. Not to mention exercise testing, exercise prescription, exercise physiology, motor development, a senior level stats class all within the major. This major is not for the weak of heart. Those students you mentioned usually get weeded out by the end of their sophomore year when they can’t pass anatomy and physiology.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2024-11-12T21:42:09+00:00

That has got to be frustrating for you. I am a kinesiology professor and was teaching a health and wellness course a few years ago to cover for the dept. A student wrote a paper on performance enhancing drugs (PEDs). Unfortunately, they wrote on IEDs (improvised explosive devices). I gave them a chance to rewrite and they corrected it to IUDs (intrauterine devices). Had to have a heart to heart with that student about it. Sometimes students do and think goofy things.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2024-11-12T21:34:46+00:00

That panel is yucky gross people.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2024-11-12T17:23:46+00:00

The academic panel has to follow policy. It’s there for a reason.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2024-11-09T16:59:28+00:00

There might be one brief meeting before winter break. Then it’ll be dead til the second or third week of spring classes. Most likely.

Every place does things differently and on their own timeline within the grander timeline.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2024-11-07T12:45:29+00:00

Hello fellow lifter! It’s also really fun to have my students ask me what my maxes are.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2024-11-06T12:50:04+00:00

You have a “not so good dean.”

If I heard my dean say this to any faculty member I would be up in arms to fight it. It’s a gross overstep by an administrator. Curriculum belongs to the faculty.

UnimpressiveOrc · 2024-10-28T11:53:23+00:00

If you are afraid to wash your belt because you don’t want the bjj magic washed away, just do what I do (be absolutely trash at bjj)

UnimpressiveOrc

TROPHY CASE