It's a social media issue that comes up at least once an academic year: Should students and their professors be friends on Facebook? There are varying schools of thought on the issue. Some professors and administrators think it's fine to befriend students, while others avoid it. Some students think it's creepy, while others request professors' … [Read more...]
The Class of 2016 Mindset: My Students are Getting Younger
When I first started teaching in Fall 2003, I worried that I was too close to my students' ages. The 26-year-old version of me created obsessively clear boundaries between myself and my students—some of whom were the same age as my younger siblings and knew my undergraduate classmates. My fear of being considered a peer instead of a professor … [Read more...]