Can a Student Date a Professor?

Here’s a question that is sure to spark some debate -- can a student date a professor? It’s a question that has been around as long as students have had professors and professors have had students. Student/professor relationships are perfect for the gossip circles in the quad or the cafeteria on any campus, even at a community college like GCC.

Student/professor relationships can be broken down into 3 categories:

• 1) While actively in a class together
• 2) After a class is completed
• 3) With 2 people who never cross academic disciplines

At Greendale Community College Dean Pelton has a very strict policy about student/professor relationships. He has even crafted a scale from 1-10, rating the hottest and most eligible students and professors to anticipate possible couples before they unite.

Valentine’s Day seems to remind me of such relationships, especially when you see them flaunted at the school dance. I suppose I could be in support of categories 1 & 2, but since I’m currently single I’m bitter toward anyone in a relationship.

How do you all feel? Not just student/professor relationships, lets throw a Valentine’s Day into the conversation too. I love sparking conversation across campus. Watching people who might not ever speak to one another discussing hot topics in the cafeteria line or the at the coffee bar.

Go get to talking!