{"id":30935,"date":"2016-01-28T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=30935"},"modified":"2016-01-28T16:47:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T21:47:57","slug":"ole-miss-students-facing-changes-to-schools-attendance-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-students-facing-changes-to-schools-attendance-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss Students Facing Changes to School&#8217;s Attendance Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Oxford, Miss. (TLV) &#8211; <strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> students will want to be aware of some of the changes to the University&#8217;s attendance policy this semester. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Instructors will still be required to track student attendance, using either ID scanners, or the myOleMiss online interface &#8211; however, there are new features in the system designed to identify no-shows early in the semester, as well as finding students whose financial aid must be modified because they either dropped courses or never attended. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There are some practical benefits for students and instructors, as well as the increased bureaucratic scrutiny &#8211; the changes will help free up seats more quickly for those looking to add a specific course to their schedule, and the attendance system should help the University maximize its student retention rate. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Here is the original article, as published on the University of Mississippi&#8217;s website:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/55411-2\/\">Attendance Tracking Software gets Upgrades, Changes this Semester<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14544\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford, Miss. (TLV) &#8211; Ole Miss students will want to be aware of some of the changes to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":30941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7684,7686,7067,7685,6432,655],"class_list":["post-30935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ole-miss","tag-attendance-policy","tag-myolemiss","tag-ole-miss","tag-student-life","tag-the-university-of-mississippi","tag-university-of-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/go-to-class_FEAT.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}