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Office-Hour Habits of the North American Professor

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the be-vewwy-vewwy-qwuiet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For those of you who wonder just exactly what it is that your advisor is up to when you try to find him and meet with him, The Chronicle of Higher Education has a study on the Office-Hour Habits of the North American Professor."

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  1. That door-closer... by Paddyish · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I know him, and he has tenure protecting his job. Good thing he'll never get that promotion he so desperately wanted.

    Tenure seems far more detrimental to the North American University than it is useful.

  2. professors..... by benny_lama · · Score: 4, Interesting

    To this day I can't understand why professors think that I should give a crap because they are a prof. It has been my experience so far that professors don't think that they need to follow the rules. I'm not sure where this attitude comes from, but I don't see it in any other profession except for politicians, and professors are usually too anti-social for politics (or too left-wing radical).

    I just took a class at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the prof decided not to lecture for the last month of the course.....and the school let him get away with it!

    I thought that professors were supposed to be at a school to teach. Most of the ones that I have dealt with have done everything in their power to avoid as much as possible of their teaching responsiblility.

    Why do we tolerate that?

    --
    "No Comm, No Bomb"
  3. Re:Keep in mind by ender81b · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How did this get modded up?

    While I joke about being in liberal arts as much as the next person - as I say i'm in the collegs of Arts and Crafts - liberal arts includes many disciples. Economics, History, Political Science, etc, etc. Not "hurl crap at a canvas"

    I could just as easily make fun of the CS deparatment at most colleges consiting mainly of smelly professors who can't teach and have no social skills.

    But please, continue your ignorance and prejudice it does make you look oh so smart.