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Attendance is tracked at any university with students that receive federal aid... So most of them.

newen 6y ago
You're probably thinking of universities submitting the number of students registered for each course. Attendance, how many students physically attend each class on a given day and which students do, is never tracked except by the occasional oddball professor who base grades on attendance.
filoleg 6y ago
This is so obviously wrong. Source: I went to a public state school less than 10 years ago and I (along with many other students) received federal aid. 90% of the classes I took didn't require attendance, and the ones that did were mostly general studies courses for freshmen (like basic lab sciences or language classes). None of the major-related courses required attendance or had it as a component of the final grade (which in my case would be maths and CS classes). Obviously, you still had to attend midterms and final exams. And each of those classes would have a couple of prodigies who would attend zero lectures and still end up doing very well in the class (with many more who attempted that and failed massively, but still). The only way of legitimately interpreting the meaning of your reply is that universities receiving federal aid are required to submit the list of students registered for each course. That has nothing to do with attendance though.
- TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
  You are so obviously wrong. Every single class I took had attendance taken. I went to university a few years ago. https://www.lssu.edu/financial-aid/retaining-aid-eligibility/attendance-policy-federal-financial-aid-recipients/ https://www.lssu.edu/financial-aid/retaining-aid-eligibility...
  - ponker 6y ago
    You are both wrong because you're making strongly absolutist claims. Why don't you both get it through your heads that different situations can be different.
    - nkurz 6y ago
      I'm downvoting you because you seem to be missing the asymmetry of the two claims. TheAdamAndChe implies that attendance is always required at schools offering federal financial aid. filoleg says approximately "Not always, here's an example where it wasn't". filoleg is not making the absolutist claim that no universities require attendance, merely providing an example that disproves the absolutist claim.
    - filoleg 6y ago
      My claim is that not all schools receiving federal aid are required to check attendance. My example proves that claim, because my school didn't. The parent comment's claim is that all schools receiving federal aid are required to check attendance. But his example doesn't prove his claim and doesn't disprove mine, because my claim allows for schools to have attendance checks, it is just that they are not obligated to. And his example aligns with my claim just fine, while his is disproven by mine. Tl;dr: my claim is that schools are not required to check attendance, not that all of them are required NOT to check attendance.

You're probably thinking of universities submitting the number of students registered for each course. Attendance, how many students physically attend each class on a given day and which students do, is never tracked except by the occasional oddball professor who base grades on attendance.

filoleg 6y ago

This is so obviously wrong. Source: I went to a public state school less than 10 years ago and I (along with many other students) received federal aid. 90% of the classes I took didn't require attendance, and the ones that did were mostly general studies courses for freshmen (like basic lab sciences or language classes). None of the major-related courses required attendance or had it as a component of the final grade (which in my case would be maths and CS classes). Obviously, you still had to attend midterms and final exams. And each of those classes would have a couple of prodigies who would attend zero lectures and still end up doing very well in the class (with many more who attempted that and failed massively, but still). The only way of legitimately interpreting the meaning of your reply is that universities receiving federal aid are required to submit the list of students registered for each course. That has nothing to do with attendance though.

TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
You are so obviously wrong. Every single class I took had attendance taken. I went to university a few years ago. https://www.lssu.edu/financial-aid/retaining-aid-eligibility/attendance-policy-federal-financial-aid-recipients/ https://www.lssu.edu/financial-aid/retaining-aid-eligibility...
- ponker 6y ago
  You are both wrong because you're making strongly absolutist claims. Why don't you both get it through your heads that different situations can be different.
  - nkurz 6y ago
    I'm downvoting you because you seem to be missing the asymmetry of the two claims. TheAdamAndChe implies that attendance is always required at schools offering federal financial aid. filoleg says approximately "Not always, here's an example where it wasn't". filoleg is not making the absolutist claim that no universities require attendance, merely providing an example that disproves the absolutist claim.
  - filoleg 6y ago
    My claim is that not all schools receiving federal aid are required to check attendance. My example proves that claim, because my school didn't. The parent comment's claim is that all schools receiving federal aid are required to check attendance. But his example doesn't prove his claim and doesn't disprove mine, because my claim allows for schools to have attendance checks, it is just that they are not obligated to. And his example aligns with my claim just fine, while his is disproven by mine. Tl;dr: my claim is that schools are not required to check attendance, not that all of them are required NOT to check attendance.