Policy on professors dating students

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The young person can feel in love and can fall prey to any manipulation on the part of the professor," he said. Cancro said that under such circumstances it is the professor's responsibility to maintain the boundaries of the relationship.

Others cite happy marriages of professors to their former students.

Several psychologists who teach at local schools also stress the difficulty of regulating human behavior, regardless of what's printed in a college policy handbook."I can understand the impulse to legislate against this kind of thing," said Dr.

What you are really trying to do is smoke out the professor who every semester picks up a student to have a relationship with -- the habitual offender," she said.

It is precisely because this type of relationship is apparently consensual that regulation becomes problematic.