On the AdjunctNation.com Web site, we surveyed faculty visitors and asked them to tell us whether they permitted students to eat during lectures. The survey results show that 77 percent faculty who responded said they did, in fact, allow students to eat during lectures. This comes as a surprise, of course, considering how much has been written about ill-mannered student behavior in the classroom. In a piece published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, such students are referred to as “classroom terrorists.” From the L.A. Times to the New York Times, college students have been chewed up and spit out over snacking in class. Theories about why students are increasingly ill-mannered range from the notion that anti-intellectualism abounds within higher education, to permissive parenting. In the AdjunctNation.com Forums, faculty posters had some interesting perspectives on the subject and shared a variety of opinions! Then, we went online and checked out what students and faculty had to say about the subject in their Weblogs (blogs). Want to read more? Better yet, if you want to comment on a blog or respond to the writer, follow the links given and visit the individual blogs.

From AdjunctNation.com Forums: Eating in Class
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Posted by: TheProf
    Hi Everyone!
It’s not me eating in class, of course. It’s my students. Is anyone else out there dealing with this? Can I make a “no lunch” policy in my 12-1 class? Can I ban snacks from my 4-5 p.m. afternoon class? Is this hard-hearted? I just can’t take the crinkling and crunching much longer....Any advice would be warmly welcomed.

Posted by: Dr. Bob
The crinkling and crunching can be annoying, not just to the professor but to the other students as well. I think you have every right to ban eating in the classroom. If students want to snack, they can do so either before or after class. If they’ve scheduled classes all through their lunch period, that’s their problem, not yours.

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