NelsonO wrote:Should not somebody like an academic advisor, academic counselor, or even an assistant coach monitor incompletes from last semester. Does anybody in the athletic department check on the academic progress of a student-athlete on a timely basis.
Does a regular (non-athlete) student get an opportunity to make good on an incomplete class.
The most plausible explanation I've heard in the Bobbitt situation is that he completed the course work over the break but his professor was out town until just before the 2nd semester started. Once Bobbitt could turn in what ever he needed to, it got processed quickly. That would explain how fast Bobbitt was cleared.
Regarding the first question, there is a staff of academic advisors in the athletic department. They are all over the academic performance or lack thereof of each student athlete. I'm not sure about all sports but I do know that football assigns a coach or coaches as well as other staff members to monitor academics. The old idiom still applies: "you can lead a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink".
Regarding completion of incompletes, at least when I was at UH any student could make up an incomplete. There was a time limit but I don't recall exactly how long it was.