Posted by caraher on July 5, 2005, at 16:25:40
In reply to Hey you, posted by Dinah on July 5, 2005, at 13:43:21
Like Dinah, I'm a name-avoider. Mine is a PhD psychologist and uses "Dr. XXX" on her answering machine message, but if she leaves a message she drops the "Dr." I wrote to her recently and after much cogitation went with "Dr. XXX" in the salutation, followed by a remark joking about that choice.
Tamar, the issue of form of address in teaching can be complicated for me. Where I am now the students are very traditionalist and pretty much call ever faculty member "Dr. XXX" (less often "Professor XXX"). In two years I don't think I've ever heard a student address a faculty member by first name, and in front of students faculty tend to refer to other faculty by title and last name (though I forget and use the first name quite often!). In my own case, teaching while ABD, every time I get called "Dr." is one more reminder that I need to defend my dissertation!
What I'm accustomed to from grad school is first names. I'm starting at a new school this fall and was on campus today and met a student. I introduced myself by first and last name and I believe he "Dr."ed me back. I guess I just want them to be in their comfort zone and will conform to the de facto school standard.
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