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 Brad Hubeny Department of Geology “How do we know that environmental concerns like global warming and pollution should be taken seriously? All of these changes could just be natural, right?” asked Steve, an outspoken student in my Physical Geology class. These questions led to a lively class discussion centered on the fact that humans [...]

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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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Jon Aske Foreign Languages Department Outline Introduction What is Web 2.0 Wikis Blogs Social Networking Podcasting Other Instantiations of Web 2.0 Final thoughts Some Interesting Links Introduction Anyone who has been surfing the Web for a while, as most people probably have, has probably noticed that the Web has changed somewhat in the past ten [...]

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Teaching Through Coaching: Bringing IDEAS into the Economics Classroom by Kevin Beckwith Am I a coach or a teacher? I first asked this question as a candidate for a British Canoe Union coaching award. During my third day on the coaching techniques course, I became intrigued with the dualistic nature of the models we were [...]

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By Rick Branscomb English Department Rick Branscomb In his essay “Some Remarks on Humor,” noted New Yorker writer E. B. White wrote, “to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about a man.” Courtesy UNH Magazine When I was in graduate school at the University of [...]

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By Michael Mulnix Philosophy Department Michael Mulnix One commonly held belief in the study of ethics takes moral claims to be somehow dependent upon social and individual circumstance, wherein the moral status of an action is a function of the environment in which it is carried out. The position of ‘moral particularism,’ however, uses this [...]

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by Annette Chapman-Adisho History Department In a graduate seminar on the French Revolution, the conversation turned to the ‘chaotic’ nature of this revolution of revolutions. I’ll admit, the observation took me aback a bit. A student of the revolution for a decade now, I had not been struck by its chaotic nature. It was chaotic, [...]

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By Rod Kessler English Department Of all the journals and periodicals in the world, it would surprise anyone who knows me well that I might take inspiration from Parade, that glossy insert to the Boston Globe whose celebrity news column typically raises such pertinent questions as which film star has the best abs (Mario Lopez) [...]

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Dan Albert (History Department) has joined Salem State College from London’s Science Museum, where he oversaw the land, sea, and air transport collections. Prior to expat life he taught Maritime Studies at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts as well as history at the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University. He studies [...]

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