@UJM
I dis not write that I was aware of the economic status of EVERY one of my students.
That said: I taught in a small law school
#1 I sat on the faculty scholarship committee and had access to applications
#2 I had students fill out a survey form with details as to if they were full time or part-time students, held jobs, what they did for a living, married, single, children.
#3 I taught my classes as a swing shift, teaching the same lecture in the morning and evening and students were free to attend either at will. We had many police officers attending Law School part-time, and as their shifts changed every few weeks they didn’t have to miss classes.
#4 The Registrar would send students’ financial aid applications to certain faculty members for review (I was one of those who reviewed them, based on my undergraduate work/degree from Wharton).
#5 The poor students didn’t have the $75-100,000 sports cars in the parking lot (this was 10-20 years ago)
#6 More than once, I advanced, loaned, gave students money for books, food, childcare and rent.
#7 I set up a textbook loan system where those who had bought textbooks and could afford not to sell them back at the end of the semester donated them to the lending library for students who found purchasing textbooks a major burden.
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