Apr 22, 2013
James M. Tour, Professor of Chemistry, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University [April 29, 2013]– What does it mean to meditate on Scripture? It is not an ethereal state where my mind is out of touch with reality. Jesus...
Nov 3, 2012
[Nov 5, 2012] Jay Lorenzen, Department of Political Science, United States Air Force Academy, Faculty Commons Staff In anticipation of the Spielberg movie, Lincoln, I’ve been re-reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s masterful work, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of...
Sep 20, 2012
John M. Dunaway, French and Interdisciplinary Studies, Mercer University [Sept. 24,2012] “And the Lord’s bondservant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps...
Jan 10, 2011
John Walkup, Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University[Jan. 16, 2011] — Student evaluations — a fact of academic life that was not always so!I recall from my early years as a professor my chairman’s vehement opposition to the very idea...
Dec 7, 2010
James C. Carper, Social Foundations of Education, University of South Carolina [Dec. 12, 2010] — As we grade our last exams and participate in celebrating Advent, my Christmas wish is for a bit more of what Lincoln said in his second Inaugural Address: “Malice...
Nov 30, 2010
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...
