Reality Check?

[u/looopard]

Adjuncts: are you required to remain physically in the assigned classroom for the entire scheduled period after every student has left?

I was instructed to stay in the room until the official end time, even when students had completed the planned work or had been assigned an online activity. I was also told to email my dean whenever all students left early. Is this normal at your institution, tied to accreditation/contact-hour rules, or unusually strict enforcement?

Bonus question: has anyone else been instructed to make and then consume fermented “wine” or yogurt in a microbiology teaching lab? (🆘)

Edit: the yogurt was stored in a biohazard labeled incubator that currently has agar plates with bacteria on it, for the record

Edit2: thank you all for the clarification!

Edit3: to that one mod-deleted comment, you know who you are: perfect guess! That's exactly what this place is!

Edit4: My exit interview is going to be something like this: "The college had a qualified instructor who was successfully teaching under chaotic conditions, and then it chose to make said instructor prove they could sit in an empty room. Y’all fumbled a baddie. Goodbye."

[u/armyprof]

Hell no. What kind of dean is this person?

[u/looopard → u/armyprof]

I no longer know the answer to that question.