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Remember the good old days, when we complained about students e-mailing us all the time? Like back in 2006, when The New York Times ran an article on students’ pestering of their professors with e-mail:
At colleges and universities nationwide, e-mail has made professors much more approachable. But many say it has made them too accessible, erasing boundaries that traditionally kept students at a healthy distance.
Professors way back then complained that students sent e-mail “with a familiarity that bordered on the imperative”; that junior faculty “struggle with how to respond [because] their tenure prospects may rest in part on student evaluations of their accessibility”; that e-mail made them feel “as if I ought to be on call all the time.”
In that golden era, before we got used to being “another service that students, as consumers, are buying,” we had the…
