Institutions tend to either ban student-faculty dating altogether or where a supervisory relationship exists. The ages of the couple -- her, 25; him, 71 -- are unusually far apart. Princeton, like a growing number of institutions, has banned all student-faculty relationships, including for graduate students.
Platt has said that she waited until two years after her graduation to ask Mitchell out. Mitchell, who is currently on preplanned leave, is just one of a number of professors to engage in or attempt to initiate a relationship with a former student or students. Still, experts with different positions on student-faculty dating advise against adopting any kind of timeline for dating former students.
Andrew T. There are a lot of questions that will arise, with too many anomalies as far as circumstances. Just not now. According to court documents, Barrett sent a student of his a Facebook friend request at the end of the spring semester, when she was in his class. The two corresponded over the summer about the student's writing. Back on campus in the fall, the student asked to meet Barrett for coffee, and they began dating.
The first student later filed a complaint with the university, alleging that Barrett had touched her genitals while she was sleeping during their relationship. The university investigated and terminated Barrett based on his poor professional judgment and the alleged touching without consent which he denied, and which the student never brought up during their relationship. Barrett filed a grievance with his faculty union, and an arbitrator ordered his reinstatement.
Bloomsburg fought the decision, but a state appeals court upheld it last week. But the student felt the overture verged on harassment, and she reported it. The professor of music, Lee C. There was no quid pro involved. Catherine Prendergast, a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where there is no policy governing student-faculty relationships, said she opposed any kind of undergraduate-faculty dating when students are still enrolled. But he says that they first engaged on a personal level via an online platform, and that when they eventually met in his office nine months after he taught her in a large class section, he realized that she wanted him to change her grade.
