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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am adjunct and I don't let anyone call me professor because I don't have a doctoral degree, am not a staff instructor. I go by Ms. LastName because I have found when you get too friendly/familiar with students it confuses the teacher-student relationship. I am their instructor, not their friend. I consistently get good reviews so I'll assume this system works. I refer to people in whatever way they tell me to, so if professor is what they prefer that's what I use. [/quote]

This. My DH is a professor and when he was just starting out, he made the error of telling a class "Oh you can just call me Larlo"...and this opened some very bizarre floodgates of overly familiar emails like,

"Dude- so I'm not gonna be in class tomorrow. Let me know if I miss anything." and "Hey Larlo, Can you shoot me over another copy of the study guide? I can't find mine. Thx."

Definitely twilight zone teacher/student comm...and the students had no issue acting like he was their bud who could just cover for them or "do me a quick favor, bro..."

Weird.

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