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Paul Musgrave's avatar

This is tapping exactly the issue—there’s a disconnect between not just the hyperspecialization of faculty “day jobs” but between the segmented and scattered interactions of coursework and the development of actual interactions that produce relationships. And the modeling point is similarly spot-on: when do our students see us as anything but grade dispensers?

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Timothy Burke's avatar

Well, or people who fight fiercely over what seem like incredibly small-stakes issues and who criticize almost everything.

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