Bowen advises fellow academics to stop wasting precious class time on announcements and logistical details. Instead, they should e-mail that information to their tech-savvy students, he says. Professors should also rely on e-mail to send follow-up comments from class discussions and to point students to relevant articles in the media or school newspaper. Where has he been the last 10-15 years? When I went back to school a decade ago, just about every class had a it's own email list on a list server.