<p>I am currently a high school senior who is taking a 100 level history course at my local community college. It's an accelerated World Civilizations course that covers 3000 B.C.E to 1500 C.E. in seven weeks. For the course, there are six quizzes, three essays (5 pages in length), and one research paper (10 pages) to do in this seven week course. Attendance is mandatory for high school students, yet the professor often just shows these stupid "Engineering an Empire" history channel DVDs instead of lectures on the material. My main complaint is that he does not grade these essays or research paper!!! The course ends next week, and I still have blanks on Blackboard for the written work (the six quizzes are multiple choice, computer graded)! I sent an email to him about 45 minutes ago and it came back with an auto-reply: "Professor such-and-such will not return to office until April 16th"</p>
<p>How can someone be so incredibly lazy? I understand it's a community college (I'll be attending a top 10 LAC next year though), but come on. What's the deal with this?</p>
<p>its a community college…unfortunately, I doubt the professors there are really that talented at what they do. When you enter ur college next year, things will hopefully be better. At my current college…I wish the teachers were lazy…but they are not, they are super duper excited about the stupidest stuff lol</p>
The reason is not because it’s a community college. Don’t try to stigmatize them. You see this everywhere. If it weren’t for TAs, some professors at some schools would never grade anything except multiple choice quizzes they copy off websites or books.</p>
<p>I almost had something like this, but the reason grades weren’t posted in my experience was that the professor never really got the grip of using Blackboard. He preferred office hours and face-to-face time to communicate grades.</p>
<p>In your case, why did you wait so late to ask about your grade? I would suggest you go to his office to ask him since email will do no good. You should have probably figured that out. If he doesn’t bother to grade things, he probably won’t bother to shuffle through emails.</p>
<p>Also don’t expect the grades to be posted on Blackboard unless the professor explicitly told you he would do that. Many Haverford professors use Blackboard to disseminate course materials but do not post grades there
A few professors post all grades at once at the end of the semester. Other professors don’t assign grades during the semester at all. They just keep track of points and then put the points on a curve at the end of the semester. Better get used to not knowing where you stand in a course.</p>
<p>Or maybe you are right and your professor is just terribly overworked. That would be sad for him and for you. My advice would be to focus on what you learned and got out of the class, not on the shortcomings of the professor. I am sure you gained something, both in terms of knowledge and writing/researching skills. The grade you get in the end is just some feedback on your progress; but as a smart and self-motivated student, you don’t need that to appreciate all of what you have learned, do you?</p>
<p>Be weary of community college profressors. A lot of them are tenured and don’t give a damn about the class/students. They will literally not teach and pop in a retro video from the 70’s and “educate” their students that way. No joke. However, some profs are amazing and deserve my love 100%.</p>
<p>I don’t think you should generalize about CC professors–my favorite teacher in high school taught English courses at a local community college by night, and she was extremely passionate about it (especially because the night school students had a genuine desire to learn and make the most of themselves).</p>
<p>Of course, I don’t give a damn what the professor’s like as long as the professor gives me an A.</p>
<p>Of course, I know someone’s going to chime in with “Well but…but…you don’t learn anything…”, to which I’ll reply, I have to go to law school after undergrad anyways, it doesn’t matter what I learn in university-most of the knowledge will go unused anyways.</p>
<p>I had a professor last semester who didn’t know how to open his email, let alone use blackboard. It goes without saying that he didn’t even open the blackboard for the course. But just like any university, some community college professors are good at what they do.</p>
<p>Get used to it, it happens at many/most colleges. The last thing on profs minds is their students grades, and that’s often why they get TA’s to do the grading (whom are often busy taking grad courses/doing research of their own).</p>
<p>yeah seriously. a lot of profs get away with crap because they’re tenured. As long as they get their monthly check in their mail, they’re just going to block out all noise and be happy in their bubble.</p>
<p>I really appreciate everyone’s opinion and thoughts; I didn’t mean to offend anyone. Apologies if I did. It was sort of shock really. In high school, all of my teachers were just extremely dedicated to their work. Then I take this little class at the community college, and I get this on my plate. Wow. You win some, you lose some, eh?</p>
<p>I suppose I will just forget about the grade I will eventually (hopefully) receive. It is more important to focus on the knowledge base and writing/research skills I developed, as b@r!um said. Thanks! ;)</p>
