I'm a grad student but I literally just talked to my students about this last week. I made it a joke, and told them that the professors and grad students laughed about how students addressed us as "hey" in emails. I think by laughingly embarrasing them (without shaming anyone) did the trick. I let them know that I understood that it may be their hesitance to use first names with a TA but assured them that we'd rather have them use our name than open an email that starts off "Hey". With professors I don't quite understand it since it is easy enough to say Dear Profesor So and So.
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Posted by Anonymous to academicsecret at 10/26/2006 08:56:40 PM
