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Dear Colleagues,

I have been teaching in the mathematics department at Nassau Community College for 38 years. It appears to me that over the past several years, issues regarding student responsibilities have cropped up that seem to be common across all mathematics courses, and I dare say, throughout the College. Among these issues are:

• Students truly believe, and indeed expect, that if they come to class, they will receive a passing grade and, more likely than not, the grade will be a C or better.
• Students believe that coming to class is their sum responsibility as students.
• The vast majority of students do no homework, ever.
• Students have come to expect long review sessions before an exam, and that the exam will contain only the problems covered in the review, with altered constants.

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