Mar 12, 2010
Carol Swain Political Science Vanderbilt University [Mar 12, 2007] — I am a devoted believer. I do not believe that you can really entirely divorce your beliefs and values from how you teach. What we believe is likely to spill over into our teaching. Not in the...
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 15, 2010
Sam Matteson, Physics, University of North Texas [Jan 17, 2010]— “Purnima has lost her baby.” The words stabbed my heart. The wife of Arup, a new junior faculty member in our department, two days before delivered their first child prematurely. Now their daughter...
Dec 3, 2009
Warren T. Jones, Sr. Professor Emeritus, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham [December 6, 2009] — How is Christmas treated (or mistreated) on campus? I thought about this recently while my wife Bobbie and I were touring the...
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...
