Mar 31, 2008
Phillip A. Bishop Coach Paul W. Bryant Professor of Education Kinesiology Department, University of Alabama Last semester was a disaster. I taught a class for which I had written the textbook. I was very excited about the text and about the class. It’s...
Feb 18, 2008
Mark Pritchard Management Central Washington University The abstract was written, the Powerpoint slides done, so it seemed like just another conference trip that so many of us take each year. With the prospect of ‘free-time’ ahead I began by...
Nov 12, 2007
John F. Walkup Texas Tech University Electrical and Computer Engineering, Emeritus Faculty Commons National Faculty Representative During my first year as an assistant professor at Texas Tech, fresh out of graduate school, I quickly learned that there was really only...
Nov 5, 2007
Brent Nelsen, Political Science Furman University As Christians we are called to disciple – but I find many of us faculty members think discipleship is either too hard — or that we simply don’t have time. For the past 19 years I have practiced “discipleship...
Oct 22, 2007
Mark G. White, Chemical Engineering, Mississipi State [October 22, 2007] “Dr. White, we will lift up a timber for you on Sunday night.” These were the words of my receptionist, Miss Sandra, on Friday evening as I was leaving the office. Sandra is a Christian woman...
Sep 24, 2007
Jim Gerdeen, Prof. Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering University of Colorado-Denver Life’s greatest challenge. For some of us, it may be the struggle to receive tenure. I never felt that way. My first professorship was at Michigan Tech where I was tenured within four...
