Should faculty have to enforce financial rules?

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Our administration decided, rightfully so, that too many students were not paying their tuition and mandated that those who have not paid or made arrangements to pay with the bursar may not attend class until they do.

Yesterday and then again today, faculty received fairly strident emails stating that *we* are not to allow students to attend class if they are not 'cleared' and that it is our duty to 'remove' them from class.

I feel pretty strongly that it not only is not my job to enforce admin/finance dept rules but that it is probably unethical for me to single out students and take time away from my class to 'remove' them. If admin wants to send someone to stand at the door and do so, fine.

Your thoughts? Know of any precedents I can explore? Any good citations?

Thanks!
 
I have seen this at almost every university at which I've been a faculty member, and while I know it can be a nuisance for a minute or two, keep in mind that your job is at stake. My guess is that you manage to "waste" more than a minute or two on other announcements to the class. If students manage to take advantage of the education without paying the tuition, the university loses out and you lose your job. Asking them to hire security to handle it is a little absurd.

Rather than singling out individual students, or doing this repeatedly, what I've generally done is to read the roll, which I do anyway at the beginning of the semester, to ensure that I know who is in the class. I then say, "If your name was not on the list that I just read, you need to get this straightened out with the bursar's office TODAY. On Wednesday (or whenever the next class is), please bring me evidence that this has been resolved, or you will not get a grade for this course." I've never had a problem. In fact, I usually have several students whose names WERE on the list aproach me after class, "Just to make sure."
 
Okay so you're too lazy to nicely tell a student that he needs to leave because he did not pay for the class. So in turn you want to have the school hire someone to do that for you, thus increasing tuition rates and thus increasing the number of students that can't pay their full tuition bill.
 
Okay so you're too lazy to nicely tell a student that he needs to leave because he did not pay for the class. So in turn you want to have the school hire someone to do that for you, thus increasing tuition rates and thus increasing the number of students that can't pay their full tuition bill.
 
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