Hitting on and getting hit on by undergrads

cosmicfish
Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:24:31 +0000

With grad students, the only real dating ethics issues are when one person is in a position of real authority over another. In other words, don’t date students for whom you are a TA or supervisor, don’t date professors from who you are taking classes or who are on your committee. Fellow grad students are 99% okay. Undergrads over whom you do not have authority are 99% okay. Professors without authority over you are 99% okay. The 99% is because many schools have regulations about who can date who, so there is always a possibility that you are accidentally violating some university rule - check and you can usually push things over to 100%.