They have traveled, lived, and worked in other countries. Their scholarship has won them invitations to lecture at universities around the world. They write books and consult for government and industry. They share their discoveries in colloquia and test the quality of their own reasoning by engaging peers in public debate. Yet, because students prefer early lunches to special lectures, they do not hear the experts their teachers invite to campus.
Students choose evenings in the residence halls over outings with professors.
Invited to hear a candidate for public office, students stay home to watch a movie. Rather than tour a university s research facility or a company s center for new product development, many spend yet another night on the telephone or Internet. Given a chance to dine at a restaurant with practitioners of a profession they hope to enter, students prefer a familiar table in the cafeteria and the company of friends. Professors leave their office doors open but few students peek in to find out more about their professors work. These students avoid the study of subjects in which they are not confident of success.