Meeting a very young early career scholar got me thinking about long faculty careers and Academic Grandchildren.
Has anyone here on Research Gate taught a student and then 20 or 30 years later taught that same student's son or daughter?
Despite my increasing number of grey hairs. I am technically an early career scholar* since I returned for a PhD later in life. My PhD adviser was Dr. Michael Kruge of Montclair State's Earth and Environmental Science Department. Just as I was finishing my degree, both of my children enrolled in Montclair State and Michael became their undergraduate adviser. They also took undergraduate classes with some of the same faculty as I had for graduate classes.
I have been assisting a PhD candidate with her research and she was also the laboratory instructor in their program. (Does that make me my own Grandfather?)
In high schools Academic Grandchildren are quite common.
How common are Academic Grandchildren at the post-secondary level and do you think they are more or less common in the STEM fields?
Thank you
Kevin Olsen
PhD and father of two.
*The plan was to go from Early Career Scholar directly to Professor Emeritus skipping all the annoying bits in between.
Dear Kevin,
Having academic grandchildren is a common experience among long academic career professors. I know some of my collegues who are grand-grand academicien fathers. This phenomenon is wide spread during the last few decades mainly because of the widespead of higher education among most socioeconomic classes of the society, beside other factors.
It is a good research topic.
Gros luck
Bouhafs
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