Timeline for Is it appropriate for a professor to require students to sign a non-disclosure agreement before being taught?
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| Sep 12, 2019 at 2:51 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | @ZeroTheHero: Normal stuff. See: "regardless of qualifications" above. :-/ | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 22:34 | comment | added | ZeroTheHero | @DanielR.Collins man... I thought things were bad here... but confusing a CHEM class with a MATH class... what do your chemists teach, or what do your mathematicians teach? ;) | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 21:39 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | Coincidentally, (2) above happened again today. My officemate just said he had a student sit in a chemistry class for the last week and not recognize it wasn't the math class for which they were registered, | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 15:26 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | @ZeroTheHero: (1) Money, I assume. (2) Our students are commonly confused enough that sometimes they sit in the wrong classroom for an entire semester and then lodge a complaint at the end. U.S. culture is very "anyone can come regardless of qualifications as long as they pay us". | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 15:19 | comment | added | ZeroTheHero | @DanielR.Collins I'm curious to understand why is this? I understand these students cannot get access to class material but why would you prevent someone from just listening to a lecture, when (I would assume) you don't prevent people from attending seminars... | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 13:51 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | At my institution in the U.S., we are strictly proscribed to only allow registered students in the classroom while teaching. (We get a big red-text memo each term about it.) My understanding is in Europe this is often very different, with classes officially open to the public. | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 12:25 | comment | added | Sophie Swett | @TommiBrander Looks like a minced oath, representing someone saying "100-proof sh-" with the intention of saying a vulgar word, but then hesitating for a few moments before deciding to finish the phrase using the word "sugar" instead of the word that was intended originally. | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 9:34 | comment | added | Tommi | What does "100%-proof shhhhhhhhugar" mean? | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 3:50 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | No, but you can stop lecturing when they come in, ask them to leave, and resume when they're gone. Then they won't have seen/heard any significant amount of the NDA material. I fully agree that the NDA is a bad idea and inappropriate, but I don't think this specific issue is what undermines it. | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 1:11 | comment | added | ZeroTheHero | @NateEldredge fair enough but can you prevent people from walking in a class? | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 0:26 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Writing books and other scholarly publications may very well be part of the professor's required duties, and it is reasonable to try to balance such activities with teaching. But I agree that I don't see how the NDA is necessary. Also, in a reasonably small class, it is perfectly easy for a professor to notice random people and ask them to leave. | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 0:07 | history | answered | ZeroTheHero | CC BY-SA 4.0 |