The University’s Faculty Senate will decide today the fate of a resolution that would allow professors to grade students based on class attendance.
The senate first read and debated the resolution last month, when several professors spoke both in support of and opposition to the bill.
The resolution wouldn’t require professors to include attendance in their grading criteria but will give them the option to do so.
“The most effective means of fostering student responsibility for class attendance is a University policy permitting instructors to include attendance among their grading criteria,” the resolution states.
Many professors already grade students on areas like in-class participation to skirt around the rule.
Mass communication professor Louis Day, who presented the resolution last month, said the new policy makes more sense.
“We just thought this was a more intellectually honest way,” Day said. “This would be a step forward.”
 
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