"Leader DeLay"??? What's up with that?

[Lal Zimman]

One of my professors goes by her first name with graduate students but
prefers undergraduates to call her Dr., specifically because one does
not have to hold a Ph.D. to lecture at my university. She told me that
she would be fine without that title if she were teaching at an
institution where all teaching were doctors.


-Lal

Dennis R. Preston wrote:
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> Poster:       "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: "Leader DeLay"??? What's up with that?
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> An old study (source forgotten) relates "Dr." and "Professor" titles
> to prestige of institution. More prestige, less doctoring and
> professoring.
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