Tomorrow's Professor Blog

Tomorrow's Professor Blog is a joint project between MIT and Stanford and appears to archive messages and comments from a similarly named mailing list.

Thanks to Naomi Story, director of the MCC Center for Teaching and Learning for pointing out the mailing list and blog.

The Feb. 6 e mail (will appear on the blob Feb. 20) directly related to a discussion over in EDUC 761 Collaborating Communities and in part reads

Tomorrow's Teaching and Learning

The Rules of Engagement: Socializing College Students for the New Century

By Neil F. Williams

Introductory comments by James Rhem, publisher, NT&LF.

Professor Williams had contributed a nice piece on "shared quizzes" earlier and so his name on an article was encouraging, but requiring students to exchange greetings with him at the door and creating a formal rule about covering one's mouth if one yawned? These, among others, seemed beyond the pale of college teaching.

Did students really need this level of coaching in manners?

And if they did, was it a college professor's job to continue raising these children?

What do you think?