Failing or Not
My name is Christina Merrida and I am in Dr. Gabbards EDU 3200 class. My transformative leadership project is on how when you come to ECU as a freshman and your struggling with a class or failing a class you get a email sayign how your endangereed of failing and potientally on academic probation. From expericence I think that is a good idea because then its kind of a kick in your butt to get things together. But what happens when your a sophmore, junior or senior. You know longer get those emails. I know that you have more experience, but then it brings you back to the question of equality and fairness. Should we just help the people who we identify as failing or should we put all concern out to all of our students...think about it.!
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Christina Merrida
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I AGREE!
I have to agree with you about upper classmen not getting e-mails. No matter what class you are in or how well you are doing, I feel that each student should receive e-mails regularly about how they are doing as far as grades. Most of the time, teachers don't use blackboard as they should so as a student we have no idea how well we are doing in the class. I don't think that how old you are should matter rather or not you receive a "warning" e-mail because eveyone deserves to know. With that being said, I also think that advisors need to tighten up on how well or how much they help students. I rearely receive e-mails from my advisor regarding things about my major ro scholarships, or anything at all. I just feel that some advisros are a little to comfortable and they seem to forget that they are here to help us and keep us all on track.
Taking Responsibility
First of all, I have to apologize if I am replying to this blog twice. I thought my previous blog had been posted but their must have been some internal error.
I understand where you are coming from Christina, about the unfairness that freshmen receive emails concerning potential failure while upper-classes may not. However, I believe the administration sends those emails to freshman especially because freshman are entering into a phase of their lives where many of them may let their social life take top priority to their academic life. They have not yet conquered the strategy of balancing a social life with academics. With no parent or adult-figure pushing them like in high school, they must find their own motivation to achieve the work they need to get done. I believe sophomores, juniors, and seniors (not all of them, but many) have conquered this strategy and realize it is their responsibility to know where they stand academically.
response
i see what your saying but there in college now. if you aren't responsible enough to pass your classes then how can you be seen as responsible in a job setting.
Not Too Sure
I think that as college students we need to be more responsible for ourselves. We no longer can count on others to help us out when we are failing. With age comes more and more responsibility and we have to learn how to balance out time in order to keep on track. On the other hand I do believe that college professors do need to remind us about due dates and where we stand in their class because as a college student I have 6 classes and it is really hard to keep up with all of them and know what has to be done by when. I appreciate it when my teachers take the time out of their busy life and update me on what is going on in the class. This just shows me since they have the time to reach out to me and let me know whats going on I owe it to them to do whatever they expect of me in that class.
Responsibility
I agree with MaryMorris11987. I think that it is the students responsibility to keep up with their work and do good. They are now in college and they should be able to be responsible enough to do their work and try their best. I know some classes are harder than others, but being in college is a part of growing up and being responsible and maturing. It would be a cool thing if teachers did do that for students, but I think it would just be more of a hassle and a lot more work than they already have to do.
Agree to disagree
I think you are completely right that recieving emails that keep you up to date on your achievement when you are an upperclassmen is fair, but I don't think that the school should have to do that. After being in school for a couple years, we should be responsible for our grades and making sure that we are passing our classes. When you are a freshman, you are not familiar with the way things work, how to check grades, and other things of that nature, so its completely understandable that they send emails to us, letting us know if we are having academic difficulty. But as we've been in school longer, we are in the swing of things and know how the system works, and therefore should be able to keep up with our academic records.