The Role of Administration – A Faculty Perspective
I am halfway through my sixth year as a full time faculty member. Before that, like many, I taught as an adjunct at various institutions. Still the experience is not the same as being a full time faculty. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how a college works. Like most things, a lot of [...]
Five traits of a successful professor . . . the student’s perspective
Every semester, in my Public Speaking class, I ask my students to write down their favorite teacher/professor and what they did that made them a favorite. Originally I envisioned that the students would talk about elements of speaking that would feed later lessons on being a quality speakers. Instead I found a list of stories [...]
Copyright and Royalties in the Theatre: How important are they?
There is a lot of business to the craft of theatre. It’s not the interesting or fun part of the job but it is a necessary one. One of the most important and most complicated parts of putting a production together is navigating the intricacies of the royalty agreement that you must enter into before [...]
Creating Life-Long Learners
I’ve been reading a lot about teaching and learning lately. In-depth stuff and big picture stuff. It seems to me that education and how we think about education is beginning to shift in a big way across a lot of planes. A colleague and I were talking about our own teaching experiences earlier this week. [...]
Dear Parent of a College-bound Child.
In the past five years or so I’ve noticed a marked increase in calls and visits I get from parents on behalf of their child. I’m not talking about the my-child-was-in-an-accident-and-won’t-be-there calls. I’m talking about the I-have-a-couple-questions-about-the-syllabus kind of calls. As a mother myself, I feel ya. If my son wasn’t taking responsibility for himself, [...]
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