When I start a new school, should I address the instructor/competent/competent by first name?
During my tenure at community college, we often addressed our professors (or instructors, whatever you’d like to call them since most hadn’t a doctorate) by their first name. Is it the proper thing to do or should they be addressed as Professor Whomever?
All through elementary and secondary school we were taught to address the teacher as The Mrs.This or The Mrs.That. Who is the best college professor?
What do you think about a divorce of a relative?
What is your professor’s preference for you to be addressed? Nearly all the professors that I know prefer to be addressed by their first name when not in very formal situations – both by colleagues and by students. What is the same with Professors? I can’t vouch for faculty in the US or other countries. This is the situation here in the UK as
there is no disciplinary order in the UK.
