bounty44
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ORIGINAL: bounty44 for my part, its navigated on an individual, one on one basis. to be safe, ive point blank asked students "if i am speaking generically in reference to you, are you a girl or a woman?" for the most part, the pause in answering tells me they haven't given it much thought yet. I have an interesting (maybe) side note on this for you, Bounty. I've had two (not full professors but) instructors that gave a two minute dissertation on why the students should call them "Mr." or "Ms." whatever. In both cases, they were younger than I. As they were going around the room, taking role for the first time, they asked each of us what we prefer to be called. When it came to me, without missing a beat, I responded: "Mr. C _ _ _ _ _ _ will be fine." One of them took that as "fair dues". One of them didn't. Guess which one was which? I dare ya! LOL Michael that's a good one! keeping in that vein---id have colleagues insist on being called "dr" so and so but by contrast, I ask my students to call me by my first name if they are comfortable doing so. my colleagues would argue that their position helped keep the professional distance they wanted, and I would say that mine closed the distance which is what I find desirable. interestingly though, I still cannot, or maybe I just don't want to, call my old teachers or coaches by their first names.
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