Jan 18, 2011
Phillip A. Bishop, Exercise Physiology, University of Alabama [Jan 23, 2011] — Ever walk away from teaching a class feeling frustrated? On the walk from my office to our Christian Faculty meeting this week, I was thinking about one of the undergraduate classes I...
Jan 10, 2011
John Walkup, Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University[Jan. 16, 2011] — Student evaluations — a fact of academic life that was not always so!I recall from my early years as a professor my chairman’s vehement opposition to the very idea...
Dec 7, 2010
James C. Carper, Social Foundations of Education, University of South Carolina [Dec. 12, 2010] — As we grade our last exams and participate in celebrating Advent, my Christmas wish is for a bit more of what Lincoln said in his second Inaugural Address: “Malice...
Oct 18, 2010
Tim Davis, Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department, University of Florida [Oct. 24, 2010] — “We just want to get to the root of the problem and find out where the tentacles are.” That’s how my friend described the agenda for a meeting called...
Sep 13, 2010
Dr. Linda Karges-Bone, Charleston Southern University, School of Education [Sept 19, 2010]– “She’s got a ticket to ride. But she does care” The Beatle’s 1965 release of “Ticket to Ride” probably dates me a bit. I actually remember my mother playing the 45 on the...
Aug 25, 2010
Samuel E. Matteson Physics University of North Texas, [August 29, 2010]— I stared at the student comment I held in my hand and scratched my head with the other. “This professor is a ROFLcopter,” it read. I wondered what this obscure expression meant until I...
