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 This one faculty member has an assignment for her government class where she tells the students they need to go out and change a campus policy and it's miserable, absolutely miserable, for all involved.  They're in groups, given little to no guidance, and are under the impression that they will fail the assignment if they fail to change the policy they chose.

Last year was miserable.  The students didn't communicate well, so I and campus safety get an email that this random group of students have an "urgent" matter to discuss about the library, which of course got me worried.  Then they were just incredible insistent.  I had to write a policy justification and have multiple meetings and emails with them before they went on to the Dean.  I also know other groups acted similiarly to other departments.  So the students are frustrated and upset, the offices affected have all this extra work and, oh yeah, we're also all low staff thanks to the layoffs two years ago so we're all functioning with less staff for several years now.

And this faculty member doesn't even send out a curtsy email, let alone ask if we'd like to be involved in this project.

AGH!