Article: Students fail to take advantage of instructors' office hours

Jennifer Case
University Wire
01-12-2004
(Daily Bruin) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- Chemistry professor Herbert Kaesz works diligently in his office, planning assignments and lectures. He looks up occasionally and glances toward the doorway of his office, but then quickly returns to his work.

Kaesz is not simply spending extra time working in his quiet office. These are his office hours. But, there are usually no students for him to advise.

"The traffic of students during office hours typically increases as we approach an exam, but other times, we're the loneliest guys around," Kaesz said.

At the start of a new quarter, many professors are finding that their offices are empty during their ...

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