If a student did this....

NJSue
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 13:21:05 +0000

If these are the only kinds of administrative mistakes that happen to your kid in college, he/she will be lucky. I don’t understand being upset that a university used a picture of a different room in a housing flyer? All rooms will have basically the same furniture (bed, chair, desk, bookshelf) even if the details of the design vary. Re dates: if the university sent out an email correction to those affected and changed their website to reflect correct info, then that’s sufficient. Some admin in Housing or Res Life didn’t proofread. Someone got a black mark in the annual review. It’s not worth firing someone over unless it becomes a pattern. How much time do you honestly think the organization should spend beating its breast over this?

The more important mistakes are the ones the registrar or the bursar might make. Save your ire for those.

Unfortunately, mistakes are just something people have to deal with in life. Accepting this reality doesn’t mean that you are endorsing a sloppy careless attitude for yourself or your own student.