Survey: Students want connections with professors but may not initiate them

28% of students say they never utilize faculty office hours; among those who do, more than half visit professors just once or twice in a semester.Image:  Accounting professor Joe Hoyle’s first experience with faculty office hours, as a student in the late 1960s, is a moment he wishes he could forget but that has shaped his own approach. “I walk in and can tell in one second that he does not want me there,” recalls Hoyle, who guessed the professor was in the middle of dealing with some sort...