Professors bunk in dormatories for room, board
By Ken Hanson
Daily Forty-Niner
Students pay more
than $5,000 a year for a dorm room. Teachers pay nothing.
Since 1986, Cal State
Long Beach has offered professors free room and board in the dorms for
tutoring students, said Gary Little, director of Housing and Residential
Life at CSULB.
"It's a great chance
to enhance interaction between the students and faculty," Little said about
the Teachers in Residence program.
Teachers participating
in the program live in Parkside Commons and are available to all students
who live in the residence halls, Little said. The teachers are expected
to put in about 10 hours a week to tutor and help students.
"It's an excellent
chance to bridge the gap between the faculty and the students," said Paul
Frantz, assistant professor of finance, real estate and law.
"This is the start
of my fifth year in the program," Frantz said. "I have not seen any problems
with the program yet."
The program has not
received any complaints of teachers' dating students in the dorms, Little
said.
Frantz attributes
part ofthe success of the program to the students themselves.
"We have a great
group of students here," he said. "I don't think there's another program
of this kind on any other university. We have good interaction with the
students."
In all, nine teachers
are living at the Parkside Commons in small apartments above the lobby
area in the hall.
Having nine teachers
from different academic disciplines in the program helps to keep balance
in the subject matter, Little said.
"Parkside is a fairly
new building and was built specifically for professors to live there,"
Frantz said.
Teachers interested
in the program apply with Housing and Residential Life in the spring semester.
The housing office tries to select the most student-oriented applicants,
Little said.
"It's a good experience
for the faculty and staff to learn about each other," Little said. |
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