<p>I"m a college administrator and you guys think that late work is okay truly have no idea what you are talking about. We have deadlines because there are financial aid procedures that have deadlines and if we don’t know if you’re going to pass your classes and come back next semester we can’t carry out the necessary actions to make sure you get your loans and grants. I have to staff the classes in our department and I need to know how people are doing mid-semester in order to figure out how many people will be in our classes next semester and how many adjuncts I need to recruit and hire for the Spring, or whether or not to fill out the paperwork to request a new hire for next year. The people at the bookstore need to know how many people are likely to come back so that they can put in their book orders in October for the semester starting in January. </p>
<p>The grading procedures are not actually a private deal between you and your faculty member because all of these statistics – number of people having to repeat a course; number of people going on academic probation; number of people returning or not returning – have ramifications all over the university. They affect how many student workers we need at the writing center, what our admissions acceptance rates need to be for next year, what that means for recruitment travel costs for admissions, etc. Your professors are aware of these deadlines and this is why they are not just ‘being a jerk’ in refusing to accept your late work. If they do, it will affect their abilities to say who is going to graduate in the spring vs the fall, etc. Students don’t see the big picture and that’s fine, but don’t assume that everyone who is letting you get your way is malicious.</p>