By Mark Morgan Music Department, Eastern Nazarene College Artistic Director, New England Light Opera “Mark, meet David Alan George.” Karen Gahagan, staff assistant in the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts did the introductions at our performance of our new show The Gilbert and Sullivan Radio Hour back in the winter of 2007. By connecting [...]

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By Kevin Beckwith Department of Economics1 Am I a coach or a teacher? I first asked this question as a candidate for a British Canoe Union2 coaching award. During my third day on the coaching techniques course, I became intrigued with the dualistic nature of the models we were discussing. Could these effective coaching techniques be applied in the [...]

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By Mildred Hoover Biology Department As educators, when do we truly become inspired? For me the date was December 1999 when I had the opportunity to visit with Dr. Nancy Pelaez, then a new biology professor at California State Fullerton who had formerly been a high school science teacher. You see, I had done research work [...]

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By Chris Fauske School of Arts and Sciences Charles Simic, who was my advisor when I was an undergraduate at the University of New Hampshire and who is the current Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, remarked in a “craft of poetry” class that “a cliché’s hope is to be readmitted to the language.” Or something [...]

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By Lorri Krebs Department of Geography Professors Kenneth Ardon of the Salem State College Economics department and Lorri Krebs of the Department of Geography agreed to watch a YouTube video called “A Vision of Students Today” and share their thoughts on some of the questions raised by it. View Professor Ardon’s response. Something has changed [...]

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By William Cornwell Philosophy Department Professors Kenneth Ardon of the Salem State College Economics department and Lorri Krebs of the Department of Geography agreed to watch this video and share their thoughts on some of the questions raised by it. Professor Ardon’s Response Professor Krebs’ Response “A Vision of Students Today” is a four-minute-and-forty-four-second video [...]

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By J. D. Scrimgeour English Department As a teacher of writing at Salem State College, I hear a lot of stories: The mother who lost her husband early and was trying to stay enrolled, but at last couldn’t afford it; the woman who lived in a shelter with her infant; the man who had grown [...]

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