[Opinion] Pandemic-Era Students Are Now Our Colleagues (opinion)

Pandemic-Era Students Are Now Our Colleagues (opinion)

New faculty who were in graduate school during the pandemic missed out on an important aspect of scholarly formation. At the new faculty orientation I led this fall, a first-year assistant professor approached me after a session on building collegial relationships and asked, with real earnestness, “How do I know who I’m supposed to talk to?” A beat later, another person from her table added the question underneath it: “And how do I know if they …