College Ain’t High School!!!
What’s The Difference?
Class Attendance?
Faculty Expectations?
The “High School Syndrome”
1. Go to class
2. Rarely crack a book
3. Take tests
4. Pass courses
5. Graduate
6. Hard to flunk out of High School
Rx for Success in the Ag. Institute
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Go to every class and lab
Read the assignments
Highlight critical information in the reading
assignment
Outline the reading assignment
Take excellent notes during lecture and lab
Review your notes from lecture and lab the
same evening
Rewrite your lecture and lab notes the same
evening
Rx for Success in the Ag. Institute
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Note what you still do not understand, call
the instructor or ask the instructor at the
beginning of the next class period
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Do all your homework yourself and
understand what you are doing
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Perform a cumulative review of your class
notes and reading assignment outlines each
night after class
Rx for Success in the Ag. Institute
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Before major exams, complete the study
guide the instructor may provide
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Attend help or review sessions if the
instructor offers them
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Utilize teaching assistant resources if
available
ATTENDING COLLEGE FULL TIME, IS
EQUIVALENT TO A FULL TIME JOB !!!
This institution has academic standards
(employment standards),
and you can be suspended from this
institution (fired)
THE TYPICAL STUDENT
DESIRES TO:
1. Get a degree as quickly as possible
(2 years)
2. Find a part-time job (20 hours per week)
3. Go home every weekend
4. Get good grades
“RULE OF THUMB” FOR THE
TYPICAL STUDENT
COLLEGE COURSES TYPICALLY REQUIRE:
· Two (2) hours of studying outside the classroom
for every one (1) hour of class or lab.
· A 17 credit hour course load will require at least 17
hours of class lectures and labs per week and ...
· 34 hours of study outside the classroom per week!
· Total weekly time resources required = 51 hours
I want part-time employment
while I am in school:
· “A part-time job at 20 hours per week”
· Total weekly time resources required
= 71 hours
I want to go home every
weekend:
· “I want a class schedule that will let me leave
N.C. State as early as possible on Friday”
· I have to work at home on weekends
· I can study at home, and catch up (????)
· I will return to school at 9:00 PM Sunday
I WANT GOOD GRADES TOO!
“Oh yea, I want to have a social aspect to my
life too!”
In all probability, what will typically be
sacrificed in order to achieve most of the
student’s objectives?
Will it be the time resources required for
studying?
MANDATORY
ATTENDANCE POLICY
“Hey, I’m an adult. Why should I have to
go to class if I don’t want to?”
“I and/or my parents are paying for this.
It should by my choice! This is America
you know!”
MANDATORY
ATTENDANCE POLICY
Adult decisions are based on information,
and are called informed or rational
decisions
MANDATORY
ATTENDANCE POLICY
Let us look at the relationship between
class attendance and average grades
for ARE 012 in a sample Spring
semester for some information on
which to base our decision regarding
class attendance.
CLASS ATTENDANCE AND GRADES
SPRING 1994
AVERAGE GRADE
100
80
60
40
20
0
<=2
3
4
CLASSES MISSED
5
>=6
CLASS ATTENDANCE AND GRADES
SPRING 1994
28.65 to 111.37
55.74 to 94.36
AVERAGE GRADE
100
59.97 to 84.21
80
26.39 to 89.91
20.08 to 90.58
60
40
20
Mean
85
Mean
78
Mean
70
Mean
Mean
59
54
0
<=2
3
4
CLASSES MISSED
5
>=6
TAXPAYERS!!!
There are approx. 4.4 million N.C.
taxpayers out there providing about a
$4,990 per semester subsidy towards
tuition for in-state students.
Since those taxpayers are footing such a
large percentage of your educational
expenses, they would very much like
for you to go to class.
TAXPAYERS!!!
The taxpayers of N.C. want you to do well
in school, graduate, and find gainful
employment so that you will contribute
to the economy of N.C.
Taxpayers also hope that the tax revenues
generated by your lifetime employment
will substantially exceed the initial tax
investment they made while you
attended N.C. State.
On Your Tuition Bill
"Statement of State Support, Fall 2007"
North Carolina State University is a publicly
supported institution. Tuition payments and other
required student fees meet only a part of the total
cost of the education of students enrolled. On the
average, for each full-time student enrolled in an
institution of the University of North Carolina the
State of North Carolina appropriated $9,980 per
year in public funds to support the educational
programs offered.
State Budget Allocation
From The 2007-2008 Budget of the State
of North Carolina
Total Budget:
Universities:
Percent:
$20,427,596,612
$ 2,626,271,017
12.86%
WHAT FACULTY EXPECT IN
THE CLASSROOM
 Attendance,
 Attentiveness,
 Active
and
involvement of students
WHAT FACULTY EXPECT IN
THE CLASSROOM
Young men and women behaving as
adults,
 A willingness to listen to alternative
perspectives,
 Debate issues with honor and
integrity, and
 Prepared at all times to learn
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WHAT FACULTY EXPECT IN
THE CLASSROOM
Disruptive behavior, or any display of
disrespect to fellow students will not
be tolerated.
You will be asked to leave the class
and not return until your attitude has
been appropriately adjusted
LAST, BUT CERTAINLY
NOT LEAST:
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Timely completion of assignments,
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Thorough preparation for exams