The Gift

Karl D. Stephan, Electrical Engineering, Texas State [October 2, 2011]– For too long, I have viewed my life as two distinct worlds, increasingly separated. In the university, I am generally in control in the classroom, and if things don’t go well in my research,...

My Ultimate Gift To A Friend

Sonya and Rick Hove, National Director – Faculty Commons, Durham, North Carolina [March 19, 2011] — Sonya’s Diary, February 15 –Today they will take half of my liver and transplant it into Gay Scott. I have known Gay since we moved to Illinois...

It’s When We Stop and Listen!

David J. Pavlat, Exercise Science, Central College (Iowa) [Dec. 5, 2010] — The most important thing I do as a department chair is to listen. I listen to my faculty members when they are struggling with something. I listen to my coaches: who also teach as part of...

Seat Of The Scornful

John Marson Dunaway, French and Interdisciplinary Studies, Mercer University [Nov. 28, 2010] — As I recently read the beginning of Through the Psalms with Derek Prince, I was struck with his meditation on Ps 1:1-3, which I had memorized over twenty years ago....

You’ve Got What It Takes

Tim Davis, Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department, University of Florida [Oct. 24, 2010] — “We just want to get to the root of the problem and find out where the tentacles are.” That’s how my friend described the agenda for a meeting called...

Caring

Mary Pedersen, Associate Dean College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo [Sept. 26, 2010] — How could they think I don’t care about them? We have a lot of different components on our student evaluation forms and for years I...