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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm married to a prof and we've never had any of his students over.  Could be just us -- we're not big on entertaining, our apt is small, and we have two little kids underfoot.  Maybe he's taken groups of them out for drinks or dinner, I'm not sure, but I don't think he does it often.  Mostly he just meets with students during office hours -- whoever wants to come talk to him.

When I picture profs having students over, I picture a scene out of the 1950s where a professor had a big beautiful house filled with books nearby a leafy campus and a wife who's job was to "support" her husband's career and hosted social events to further it.  Maybe the professors' wives all met together and had a club or something.  Back in the era where men brought their bosses and business associates over for dinner.  That's really not done anymore.  [/quote]

As I said before I think it varies with the college.  Some stress this.  Only so much they can pressure so not everyone has to do it.  But many embrace the role.  Yes it may feel like something old.  And a lot depends on what the professor thinks their job is.  Is it to do research, publish, teach a couple of classes, have office hours, and grade or is it more than this.  The profs that I knew that had more interaction considered their job to be not quite 24/7 but more than preparing for class and office hours.  Of course profs may not be paid the same in relative terms as they have been in the past.  But one professor where I went to dinner a couple of times did have that nice big house.  His wife was the president of a non-flagship state university.  Another prof that I spent time wife -- his wife was an artist and a writer.  Both profs and wives loved to entertain -- not to entertain but for the stimulation and discussion.  Food was always so so.  It was the discussion.[/quote]

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