"Students need to understand how much money they are wasting when they don't show up," Brigham-Grette said. "If it's $50 a class, then they should think, I just flushed that money down the toilet."
One 2014 study at Harvard University, using hidden cameras and self-reporting, found only 60 percent attendance on average at any given lecture. The roll call declined as the semester went on, from 79 percent at the beginning to 43 percent at the end.
Money | Thu May 26, 2016 3:11pm EDT Related: MONEY
If you waste $50 each time you skip class, would you do it?