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	shadowmonkey 2010-01-18 09:30 am UTC (link)
	I'd have thought a university would make it a requirement for the professor to sign up and be available. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

maev_connacht
2010-01-18 04:50 pm UTC (link)

If you've dealt with faculty at a college, you'd know that entitlement issues aren't just for students! (I am not saying this is true of all professors, some are great. Some are entitled douchebags.) At least at my workplace, the administration is pretty much afraid to require our faculty to do much of anything they don't want to do, and we have some very strange characters. I could imagine a technophobe faculty member refusing to do so even if it were a requirement.

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	shadowmonkey 2010-01-18 11:57 pm UTC (link)
	If the administration is too afraid of the faculty to enforce a security and safety issue, then I hope they don't solely rely on an emergency messaging system that can be overridden by a professor refusing to have phones (their own, and students') in class. ... There will be a university somewhere doing that, won't there? o.O (Reply to this)(Parent)

snarkhunter
2010-01-20 01:28 am UTC (link)

AAAHHHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAAAAAA.....

That would go over SO well. Getting faculty to do anything = herding cats.

Also, as

agent_hyatt said, above, not everybody has text messaging on their phones.

Furthermore, those warnings are also sent via e-mail, so unless you're in class with your phone RIGHT THAT SECOND, odds are you'll get it one way or another.

I never bring my phone to class. I leave it locked in my office--that way, if I forget to turn it off, my students don't get to mock me. ;D

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shadowmonkey
2010-01-20 02:07 am UTC (link)

Now I'm confused, are you arguing for, or against, the necessity of phones in class? Because I said I didn't think more than one person needs to have the phone on. If you are the professor demanding that students turn their phones off, and your uni solely relies on a text message/email emergency system, then it's absolutely beholden to you to have a phone available.

Of course, most (and frankly I hope all) universities do not use text message as a means of communicating warnings to people in class. It's a uncontrollable, unaccountable, third-party system without guarantee of delivering time-sensitive information. Much more efficient to hit the fire alarm, or shout at you. So I guess who has the phone on in class for warnings is kind of a moot point.

Anyway, the guy in the original post? Still a douchebag.

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	shadowmonkey 2010-01-20 02:11 am UTC (link)
	Possibly also "an" uncontrollable system. (Reply to this)(Parent)

snarkhunter
2010-01-20 04:03 am UTC (link)

Oh, I'm basically for them, but I don't really care one way or another. I just think it's impossible for the university to force faculty to carry their phones.

I actually don't get all that upset about my students' phones going off in class, as long as it's clearly a one-time thing or an accident. If they all started vibrating/ringing/beeping simultaneously, then, yeah, we should clearly find out what's going on.

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