Academic life often feels like a silent hierarchy: who speaks, who waits, who gets heard, and who gets forgotten. This survey helps you observe the invisible ordering system that governs conversations, decisions, credit, and confidence inside your campus ecosystem.
9. Prestige Clustering: There are “star teachers,” “names that matter,” and “names people forget.” Students, administrators, and colleagues unconsciously cluster around certain individuals, and this social gravity shapes the hierarchy more than any rulebook.
question: How strongly do students and administrators gravitate toward a small set of “star teachers”?