In comparing two universities’ mission statements, I was animated by the idea to compare my undergraduate and graduate institutions—which, okay, yeah, could sound basic/unoriginal/boring/whatever to some; however, I felt a bit guilty realizing I’d never previously looked at the mission statements of the two schools with which I’m most familiar. With that, I was (and […]
For my project, I proposed addressing ethically questionable situations we’ve discussed in class, and writing about them in a fiction story. Through doing so, I had hoped and still hope to encourage new understanding for students in regards to the merit in practicing integrity in both academia-centered and professional worlds. In thinking about the plot for […]
My personal code of conduct (as I’m sure is others) is hard to explain in a short blog post, as this idea of laying down my beliefs in a few hundred words runs me the risk of not fully fleshing out and justifying them. However, what I can say, is that, in response to the […]
Even with the film, “A Vision of Students Today” including the 1967 quote that the classroom environment at the time was “scare but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns,” this still rings true to an extent in many classroom environments almost 50 years later. This video shows students being treated as a number, with […]
Being a fiction writer in the MFA program, I decided to focus less on the professional conduct for my discipline of crafting fiction and more on my work as a future instructor of first-year composition. With this in mind, I looked to the CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) and its “CCCC Guidelines for […]