FSU Professors to Pay for Tardy Grades

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  1. Mark A. Sykes

    Mark A. Sykes Member

    From Inside Higher Ed:
    Many professors hate grading, and like most human beings, they often put off what they don’t like. So at many colleges, the end of a term results in some proportion of the faculty turning their grades in late, much to the dismay of the registrars whose job it is to process the grades and make them available to students.

    [Florida State University interim registrar Kimberly] Barber explained to a somewhat incredulous audience Wednesday: Florida State is what she believes to be the only institution in the country that fines its professors when they turn grades in late at semester’s end. The tab: $10 per grade.

    “We charge for every grade for every student that is not turned in by our deadline,” Barber said, adding, slowly for emphasis: “I’ll say that again: Every grade for every student that is not turned in by our deadline.”​

    There is an extenuating circumstance, but one of my professors is tardy by more than a month with two of the three grades in a class which ended in early February. I'm not on any financial aid so it's not a crisis, but a timely heads-up on his part that such-and-such is happening so grades are on a back burner until a little later would have been nice.
     

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