<p>I go to an LAC where professor/student relations are very close. I regularly go to my professors’ offices just to have a conversation about something unrelated to the class. But if you miss class, no one will ask where you were. Well… one professor I had was naive and would be genuinely concerned if you didn’t show up, thinking you were sick. But that was all.</p>
<p>And even ^ seems a little hand-holdy. At the beginning of almost every class I’ve taken, the professor says something along the lines of, “Don’t you DARE come to me after you’ve missed a class to ask what you’ve missed. It’s your responsibility to get that from a classmate.”</p>