What’s the Point of a Professor?

For a majority of undergraduates, beyond the two and a half hours per week in class, contact ranges from negligible to nonexistent. In their first year, 33 percent of students report that they never talk with professors outside of class, while 42 percent do so only sometimes

.. When college is more about career than ideas, when paycheck matters more than wisdom, the role of professors changes.

.. Sadly, professors pressed for research time don’t want them, either.