Mar 14, 2010
Greg Bashford, Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln [March 14, 2010] — My graduate student came to find me. “You play guitar??” he asked. “I do too! Do you ever play in public?” Well, my “secret” was out. I normally didn’t talk openly...
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....
Jan 25, 2010
John Marson Dunaway, French & Interdisciplinary Studies, Mercer University, Macon, GA [Jan 31, 2010]— As a student, I was inspired by the example of a Christian professor who became like a second father to me. Wallace Fowlie was a master lecturer and a...
Nov 13, 2009
Mark G. White Director and Earnest W. Deavenport, Jr. Endowed Chair Mississippi State University [Nov. 16, 2009] — Several years ago, I had a remarkable office visit. A former student who had graduated more than a decade earlier from my prior university stopped...
Nov 8, 2009
Wes Fondren, Communication, Coastal Carolina University [Nov 9, 2009]– Recently, I watched a student cheat on a mid-term. She pushed the jacket sleeve of her left arm up to her elbow, looked at her forearm, then wrote something down on the test. After glancing...
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...
