Re: requiring wc visits

[Sara Kimball <skimball@uts.cc.utexas.edu>]

I think this is the only reasonable solution.  We've also had to use it at
least once to resolve a catch22 situtation.  Our funding is through a
student fee paid only by undergraduates.  We can't work with grad
students, who don't pay the fee, even if they are enrolled in an undergrad
course.  We've had at least one grad student show up who was enrolled in
an undergrad course whose students were required to make visits.  

Sara Kimball

On Sun, 3 Nov 1996 gillespiep@vmsb.csd.mu.edu wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Muriel Harris wrote: > And a question: What do you
> think of the frontal approach to students > who don't want to be there,
> have nothing they want to talk about, and > still have to have that damned
> "note from a tutor"...namely, that > after a few minutes of trying to
> engage them, we just sign the slip > and let them go. Any thoughts? >
> Mickey, that's been exactly our approach, and whenever this comes up, we
> phone the instructor and make our policy clear, that we won't force
> tutoring on reluctant students; instructors have been uniformly positive
> about this policy.