I went to a specialized kind of crunchy program at a mid-size state university in the 1980s. All the professors in my program were called by their first names, but those in larger university were called by title and last name. |
Academic freedom means professors get to do this. Students do not have to take their classes. And walkout * to meet with the trustees to discuss concerns and divertment* is a bit different than a walkout to have a mass protest and build and encampment. |
When I went to grad school 8 years ago I called my professors by their first names. They called me by my first name. You call me by my first name, I call you by yours. In law school I called my professors "Professor Larloss" because they called me "Ms. Larlosson." At both law school and grad school what I was doing was what most all of the students were doing. I remember hearing a peer ask my fave professor and mentor a question and prefacing it with "Dr Larloss" and it sounded weird to me. So some students still used title and last name. But the vast majority of us didn't. |
I do, and I also think it is dumb. DP |
Only with a terminal degree. Otherwise, the title would just be instructor. |
This is the correct answer. |
I was at a large university about 15 years ago — most people called the professors by their first name. I never could manage it to their faces (even my advisor after I started my masters lol) but most people did. I think it must be really school/discipline dependent. |
No, it's not "the norm."
My college kids call their profs "Dr LastName," or occasionally "Prof LastName." |
It varies from campus to campus. At the SLAC where I teach, a lot of students just call us Professor, no last name even. There are a few, mostly male professors who go by their first name. I dislike that personally because it makes them seem ‘cool’, and women don’t get the same treatment. When corresponding with other faculty, administrators or other staff and a student is copied, we refer to each other as Professor Last Name |
Each school has a culture that establishes the way professors are addressed. When you are hired there, you go along with that culture. If the student body is accustomed to calling professors ‘Professor X’ then that’s what they use to address you. Most professors don’t stream into a classroom and demand any specific name or title. |