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<p>One point in my post is in practice, it’s YMMV and very dependent on whether the student is attending a larger institution/research oriented university or a student/teaching-oriented LAC/LAC-like university and the individual Profs. </p>
<p>Another point is that in many of the latter campus cultures, there would be some vehement disagreement with some parts of those rules from many students due to the prevailing student culture and type of students such campuses tend to attract. </p>
<p>At my LAC, Prof-student relationships are much less formalized than at larger institutions…especially research universities and it is quite commonplace for Profs to invite students over to their homes for meals/hanging out on a regular basis or sometimes to go so far as to hand out their home phone numbers in case of actual academic/personal emergencies.* </p>
<p>Like many other things, sometimes a few students do take it too far and abuse it while the majority are respectful of reasonable boundaries…such as not calling Profs during a major holiday when Profs would be having dinner with their families. </p>
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<li>Due to many factors, it’s very unlikely this would be the experience of most students at larger institutions…especially research universities unless the student concerned makes a serious effort to develop an unusual rapport with the faculty member concerned by being strongly interested in the field, being good enough to be a prospective grad PhD track student, having some personality trait or professional/social interests both share, etc. Not saying it’s impossible…but it would require much more initiative and effort on the part of the student and a willingness for him/her to accept some Profs may not be interested in developing that rapport.<br></li>
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<p>It is the reality I heard from faculty members, PhD students applying for faculty jobs at LACs, Chronicle/Inside Higher Ed articles, and the fact tenure decisions at LAC do place much more weight on one’s teaching/student mentoring* in the evaluation process than their research U counterparts. </p>
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<li>Student evaluations on a Prof’s teaching quality, office hours, etc are part of that assessment.</li>
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