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[quote=Anonymous]I was a 23 year old with no teaching experience when I first precepted at Princeton.  I ran discussions and did all the grading for my students.  The professor lectured and was accessible at office hours, but I'm sure there were students whose only contact with him was listening to lectures.  I had similar experiences as an undergrad at Harvard.  (And while my Expos teacher was older than 22, she wasn't in graduate school -- might have had an MFA but I'm not sure of that.)  As a faculty member at Hopkins, I taught undergrad courses that ranged in size from 12 to over 200 and got to know some of my undergrad quite well -- in some cases from advising and in others from courses.

Hopkins wasn't that different from what I'd seen in the Ivies and, to the extent that it was, there appeared to be more senior faculty actively involved in undergrad teaching at JHU.  Smaller scale may have increased faculty accessibility as well.  FWIW, Princeton was more undergrad focused than Harvard.  Princeton undergrads did seem more coddled than undergrads at either Hopkins or Harvard.  But at all three schools, a smart and academically engaged undergrad could easily get to know faculty in his or her field.  At least that was my experience in the liberal arts.

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