It’s only the second day of class and my boss is thinking about cancelling my Critical Thinking class due to lack of enrollment. Currently, there are five students enrolled.
I think she is putting the cart before the horse. First, there is still another week of Drop/Add left, so there is the chance that more will enroll. Second, the class could still run with five students. The cut-off point is four. It just seems stupid to me.
The same thing happened to one of my colleagues, OGD. OGD has taught Principles of Management since God created Heaven and Earth (Or when the Big Bang occured or whatever theory you follow). But the Dean of Instruction (DI) cancelled his class too for lack of enrollment. He had five students in his class too. But here is the rub. My friend, LB, who taught the course last semester, said that there were five students from her section that failed the course. Two of those five were supposed to graduate in May, but will not because of the failure. Neither has registered for that class yet. So, if they register during Drop/Add that would bring the total to seven. But now there is no class because the DI canned it.
OGD is pissed off because this is the second or third time that the DI has screwed him with respect to classes. DI does not like OGD, because he is outspoken and the students like him. This time, it almost seems personal that the DI is messing with his classes.
Does this happen at other colleges to adjuncts?????
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4 comments:
sounds like your school has pretty decent class sizes. 5 is pretty tiny.
Ah yes, the curse of being outspoken and popular with students! Incredible that one gets punished for such things.
How is it that if four is the cut-off number, they are cutting it at five? I just don't get it.
We have to have at least 10 for the class to make, and even then it isn't safe until we get 15. I had a class canceled a few semesters ago a week before the semester started because it only had 6 students in it. No less than 7 students came by complaining that they tried to register but the class was canceled!
So, they do this for full time faculty, too. Right now, I am looking at summer enrollment. I am teaching two sections of a class. One has 6 students and one has 5 students. The summer term doesn't start until next month, but ...
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