Philoxenia – At Thanksgiving

Faculty Commons, Virtual Team Staff [Nov. 12, 2013]~~ Philoxenia! An unwanted disease?  In reality, it refers to a desperately needed practice among Christ-followers. Philoxenia is Greek for hospitality— a word literally meaning “the love of strangers” or...

Committing Academic Suicide

      Michael J. Bozack,   Surface Science Laboratory,    Department of Physics,   Auburn University   [Oct. 8, 2013]–It’s rare for me to walk among the crepe myrtles at Auburn University and not remember that the Christian life is high adventure, filled with...

Seeing Beyond GPA

Martin Root, College of Health Sciences, Appalachian State University [Sept. 24, 2013]– College is competitive. As instructors we wish it were not so. We wish that students would have the time, energy, and curiosity to enjoy the material we teach. But alas,...

Meet the Prof

Marianne Herr-Glaser, Department of Communications, Clemson University [Sept. 17, 2013]– Professors use various means to get acquainted with the students entering their classes each term. One example of a creative way to bridge the gap between perception and...

Fully Present

    Rick Hove,     Executive Director of Faculty Commons,     A Ministry of Cru [Sept.3, 2013]–  It may seem obvious, but we can be only one place at one time. Still, our minds race to the departmental meeting, to our unfinished applications, or to those yet to...

A Battle Worth Fighting

  Rick Hove, Faculty Commons Executive Director, [May 6, 2013]– Few places seize my heart like Gettysburg.  The tranquil rolling fields and scattered wooded lots surprisingly speak of those early days of July 1863 when they were far from tranquil.  Over...