Why do ICU faculty all have “office hours?”

ICU pays respect to each and every one of its students as unique individuals. We believe that communication requires thinking and that it will lead to deeper learning and highly effective study.

Faculty office hours are one policy that we have put into practice based on these beliefs.

In principle, each member of the faculty has at least two set hours a week during which students can visit them in their lab outside of class time to ask questions freely. Students can consult with faculty and ask questions about anything, such as topics that were raised in class, study plans, and their own career. Some students use office hours to find out whether they will be able to learn what they want to learn in a certain course before deciding whether or not to take that course.

This is a unique feature of ICU's small-group education policy, which has a student-to-teacher ratio of just 18 to 1.