Office Hours Are Obsolete

By Jonathan Rees - Chronicle Vitae. A few weeks ago, the Huffington Post ran a story—if you can call it that—about a professor at an unnamed university who put up an incredibly lifelike (and lifesize) photo of himself, hard at work in his office, on his office door. “Professor Fakes Out Everyone,” the headline read. Of course, that’s not technically true: If some Reddit user caught on, so would any student who actually tried to visit this guy during office hours. See more...