@wilbowma during my second year review:
chair: "So the three students. Now was that this year, or last year."
me: "... it was both years.."
chair: "you can teach whatever you want but.. please.. double digits."
I think realistically as long as I am making an effort to get folks to enroll and hit nearly 10 it's fine, but if I continued to teach courses with 3-4 students they'd probably make me teach a "real" course.
@krismicinski @wilbowma that's impressive, anything below 12 gets cancelled here unless a student specifically requires *that* course to graduate
@csgordon @krismicinski @wilbowma our situation is similar to what Kris describes, eventually you get yelled at but they don't nuke courses proactively (in my experience at least)
@regehr @csgordon @krismicinski @wilbowma
Joys of small liberal arts schools: as an undergrad, my OS class (required for the major) started at 4 and dropped to 3 when someone switched majors.
Since I was taking the class with the cohort a year ahead of me, I would try to complain about how hard it was to build camaraderie, especially since the two remaining students were roommates. One hiccup...
@regehr @csgordon @krismicinski @wilbowma The prof had a long established habit of announcing exam averages on post-exam review days, and for the midterm he told us all that the average score had been 72. My exam had "105" written at the top, and I immediately started sinking under the table 😅