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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your daughter is now in the world of academia. This is how academia works: You err on the side of respect until you are invited into a more informal relationship.

Don't like it? You don't have to stay in academia.

I have a master's degree and have worked as an administrative staff member at four universities and a law school. This is how academia is. Now you know, too.[/quote]

What exactly is disrespectful about using someone's first name?[/quote]

If they are your professor, and haven't invited you to, it just is.   [/quote]

+1   Do your kids call their grandparents by their first names?  Do they call you by your first name?  Do they call their doctors or teachers by their first names?

So why would you presume that their university professors are somehow less worthy of respect, or that your child is somehow the peer of a university professor?

I want to know where OP went to college that this is all coming as a surprise to her.[/quote]

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