Apr 1, 2011
John Walkup Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas Tech University [April 4, 2011] — How should I react when my well-planned academic career is threatened — or overturned? As a doctoral student at Stanford, I had to appear before two panels of...
Mar 29, 2010
Eric Jones Exercise Physiologist Kinesiology and Health Science Stephen F. Austin State University [April 4, 2010]— How would your friends in high school have described you? I received a call recently from a high school classmate concerning plans for a reunion....
Feb 15, 2010
Lester W. Knotts, English, United States Military Academy [ Feb 15, 2009 ] — A few years ago, I was leading a discussion in a first-year literature survey course. We were reading a poem that alluded directly to New Testament scripture concerning the Holy Spirit....
Feb 3, 2010
Samuel E Matteson, Physics, North Texas “I do not have a Vice Chair, nor an Assistant Chair, but I do have Sam, my Ad-vice Chair,” quipped my brother-in-Christ, Chris. For 10 years I was chairman of the physics department and Chris was my vice chair; now he is...
Jan 29, 2010
Noel Caldwell, Midlands Tech (Retired), Columbia, South Carolina [Feb 7, 2010]— Do you ever ask what really remains from all your years in academia? Some of my most gratifying experiences have been occasions when a student, staff member, or one of my faculty...
Oct 7, 2009
Kathryn Lindholm-Leary, Child and Adolescent Development San Jose State University [Oct 11, 2009] — I don’t do enough for my students. It took a note from a little girl in the Philippines to make me realize this. Last November I bought a jacket with a faux fur...
