“Everybody is a somebody; never–never–treat anybody as a nobody.” I told a couple of professors at the closing wine and dine schmooze session of my two days workshop on teaching at Central Michigan. Unexpectedly I found myself going into a deeper “why” as they probed the “why” of my vision. “Everybody is a somebody; never–never–treat [...]
In spite of this morning’s South Georgia billowing pollen storms that are gold plating my recovering lungs, I thought how lucky another day belongs to me. How lucky I am to have been so close to death and now to be able to so celebrate life. With so many things to complain about nowadays, it [...]
Train for skills while educating for character; preparing for making a good living while preparing for living the good life. Louis
If we in academia are really concerned about retention, we must forge embracing, caring, supportive, encouraging, and empathetic connection. Louis
We talk of classroom diversity in the traditional racial, gender, ethnic, religious, and whatever terms only too often to cluster students into simplistic, distorting, and misleading racial, gender, ethnic, religious, etc, etc, etc stereotypes in the classroom. Let me give you a cold fact I’ve discovered about true classroom diversity. Students are like snowflakes: [...]
