Students also discussed the development of relationships with professors. The development of a personal relationship with professors requires primarily student initiative, said students present for the meeting. Professors are very busy people. Marcum, a biology major, attributes the difficulty in forming personal relationships with professors to the nature of the science curriculum. Both groups also spend such large amounts of time together in lecture and lab that often both have had enough of one another, she said.
Science classes are more structured That makes a big difference.
The students also expressed a great deal of interest in intellectual discussion in a non-class setting. They also said that there is often little participation in such events because most students do not know about them, said students present at the forum. We enjoy it. But student participation in a number of events is low, Slatt said, because students do not find out about events until it is too late to attend. Marcum suggested posting campus events in the dining halls because most students would see such a list.