Timeline for How to respond to a student email demanding quick feedback?
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| Oct 31 at 13:03 | comment | added | Dmitry Savostyanov | @Anonymous It is true that in a few years many of the graduates will join workforce, and many will be subjected to "corporate norms". But does it really mean that students have to use their time at University to prepare for this? I am not sure. Consider this -- in a few years we will be dead. Does it mean we have to spend our time preparing for the graveyard? Or perhaps we should live our life as we choose, treasure each moment, and use it in the best possible way to celebrate our life and freedom? | |
| Oct 31 at 12:58 | comment | added | Dmitry Savostyanov | @Anonymous I personally dislike it when people see University as a preparation step for the marketplace. People are not commodities; they can choose what to do with their life, which values to uphold, etc. They can also choose to change the society norms, if they are systematically unfair or biased. Education gives you a freedom of choice, not just a nice badge on your CV to be sold to some faceless corporation. | |
| Oct 31 at 12:51 | comment | added | Dmitry Savostyanov | @CaptainEmacs I like the gym analogy. And although it is true that gym stations can be fully occupied sometimes, it should be a rare occasion, which a responsible gym management should minimise. As responsible academics, we care about the best experience for our students and do not dismiss their valid concerns. | |
| Oct 31 at 1:47 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | @DmitrySavostyanov Timeliness is not at discussion here, the OP is within their allotted marking period. Also, the comparison with customers is not precise either. If you absolutely want to compare it, the uni is a gym. You pay for the opportunities. Still, stations/coaches in the gym might be occupied and you may have to sort out your own procedure for progressing, even if you pay for them. | |
| Oct 30 at 14:49 | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | The entire workplace point feels like an out of place tangent here. You can't really speak for The Workplace™ in general, and it just detracts from the good suggestion you are making here. | |
| Oct 30 at 14:41 | comment | added | Anonymous | My point with the perspective from industry is this: Most students who enter academia do not remain there, but cycle out into the wider marketplace ("industry") with better skillsets, including soft skills. In a large number of cases, this is their purpose for being there. And so, without claiming that it is the direct responsibility of any one professor, I do claim that the sooner this student is disabused of their attitude, the better it will be for them. Whether they remain in academia or, especially, if they don't. | |
| Oct 30 at 13:32 | comment | added | Dmitry Savostyanov | Students are not new hires at a workplace. University does not pay them. Quite the opposite: students may pay tuition fees, either directly, or via loans. If you want to draw analogies, students are more like customers than like new hires. And customers have a right to demand particular standards of service, such as timeliness. This specific student is not doing it gracefully, sure, but this is a separate discussion. | |
| Oct 30 at 12:04 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | This is Academia.SE, not Workplace.SE, so I don't find answers about how behaviors work in the workplace to be very useful. | |
| Oct 30 at 10:44 | comment | added | Ian Sudbery | That said, reminding students of the rules in a whole class announcement is not a terrible idea. | |
| Oct 30 at 10:34 | comment | added | Ian Sudbery | I don't think comparing the the relationship between a teacher and a student to that between an employer/manager and an employee, they are different relationships. | |
| Oct 30 at 6:32 | comment | added | usr1234567 | Not true. People are often quite demanding in industry, even towards people one or two levels higher up. They are pressured by their own bosses. It does not make their behavior better, but you can often experience it. | |
| Oct 30 at 5:16 | history | answered | Anonymous | CC BY-SA 4.0 |