How much should you tip a professor after finals?

[gravenewworld]

Do you base it on difficulty of the class or a percentage of the actual class cost?

Typically I do 15% of the course registration fee, but I would like to know what's the acceptable standard.

edit: here's a useful link:


http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/lab/tipping.html


Provides the basic outline in the tipping process for college courses

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Wow, I never would have thought to tip professors. How common is this?

 

[1MileCrash]

Wow, I never would have thought to tip professors. How common is this?

woosh

 

[Evo]

Tip a professor? What?

 

[AlephZero]

Sheesh. If anybody had done that in my day, they would have been thrown out of the university forthwith, even if they scored 100% without being graded on a curve.

If you want to buy a degree certificate, AFAIK there are organizations that will sell you one on-line, without the hassle of doing any work. But I didn't realize it had now gone legitimate.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

GNW looking for a humor award nomination? :)

 

[Evo]

Do you base it on difficulty of the class or a percentage of the actual class cost?

Typically I do 15% of the course registration fee, but I would like to know what's the acceptable standard.

edit: here's a useful link:


http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/lab/tipping.html


Provides the basic outline in the tipping process for college courses

Your link was meant as a joke.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/coll...217-college-students-how-much-should-you.html

 

[collinsmark]

(That article has got to be a joke.)

 

[1MileCrash]

Your link was meant as a joke.

And clearly intended as one by the OP.

 

[gravenewworld]

(That article has got to be a joke.)

It has cited sources...

 

[Evo]

It has cited sources...

DeBeers? Did you read those sources?

 

[collinsmark]

It has cited sources...

Haa haa! I just noticed those

De Beers, F. 1980. "Establishing Arbitrary Rules of Thumb in the Diamond Market," Journal of Worldwide Monopolies, Capetown, South Africa, Vol 45, No. 2, pp 15-27.

Greenspan, A. 1992. "Dicking with the U.S. Economy," in Proceedings of The World Economy as a Board Game, Washington D.C., Vol 2, pp 120-134.

O'Neill T. (Tip). 1987. "Congressional Ethics and Other Myths," Journal for Retired Congressmen, Cayman Islands, Vol 26, 787 pp 1-245.​

 

[Windadct]

Like a cow?

 

[SteamKing]

Here's my standard tip: 'Don't quit your day job.'

 

[George Jones]

When I was a grad student, I was a tutor and a marker for a mechanics class. The students were so appreciative of my efforts that they brought a case-and-a-half (36) of beer to my office as presents at the end of the semester.

 

[jbunniii]

The "Tip" O'Neill citation was a nice touch.

 

[lisab]

aaaaaaaaahahahahaha!

Great thread, GNW! NOW I know why my profs never liked me!

 

[zoobyshoe]

I happen to know some ex-patriate Russians, and they say this Academic tipping system worked beautifully over there during the whole Communist era. It's actually taught at the grammar school level to prepare their citizens for dealing with Government officials when they become adults. It's a good system to remember, also, if you ever have any dealings with Sicilian Businessmen or Third World police forces.

 

[Evo]

Time to shut this down.