Nov 6, 2006
Mark Pritchard Business, Central Washington University Emergency college meetings are rarely good. The day started well enough. It was Good Friday, and I had invited the head of our journalism school to attend a sunrise service with me. Lowell Paxson, founder of Pax...
Oct 30, 2006
Rae Mellichamp Emeritus Professor, University of Alabama Faculty Commons National Representative I was sitting in my lounge chair watching Monday Night Football when, in a moment of distraction, I started thinking about my devotional life. I started to rationalize as...
Sep 11, 2006
Phillip A. Bishop Kinesiology, University of Alabama When you were a student, who impacted you? Most likely you were influenced by someone who spent time with you. Many of the students sitting in our classes have parents that are too busy to spend time with their own...
May 1, 2006
John Walkup, Emeritus Professor Texas Tech University Faculty Commons National Representative I remember reading an article in my college alumni magazine by a woman who shared the lessons she had learned from her Down Syndrome child. She made this discovery: ...
Apr 10, 2006
Donald G. Davis, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Library History University of Texas at Austin Three temptations, particularly attractive to us as Christian faculty members, can minimize any public expressions of our Christian witness. They arise from conditions of...
Apr 3, 2006
John Walkup Emeritus Professor, Texas Tech University Faculty Commons National Representative I was 30 years old when I started my academic career, but I still needed a lot of mentoring. Graduate school doesn’t entirely prepare you for functioning successfully in the...