No, I’m not talking about students bribing faculty for good grades, but the reverse: faculty bribing students to attend events outside of class. For example, I offered the students in my class five bonus points on tomorrow’s mid-term exam if they attended last night’s Alan Lightman lecture. I’m fairly certain that 12 of the 16 took me up on it.<\/p>\n
My feeling is that this has an almost negligible effect on the final grades, but can make a big difference in the audience for an evening talk. And it’s often beneficial for students to attend these events and get some sense of the larger intellectual universe. I have colleagues, though, who are adamantly opposed to this sort of thing, viewing it as some sort of corruption of the academic system (I think– I’ve never gotten a really clear explanation).<\/p>\n
So let’s throw the question open to my readers:<\/p>\n
\nIs it appropriate for a professor to bribe students to attend an evening lecture or other intellectual event by giving extra credit points for showing up?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Leave your answers in the comments. If you’re willing to indicate your approximate age as well, that might be interesting, as I’ve sometimes thought there was a generational component to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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