My Student Inspires Me
by Jenny Jocks Stelzer, English Faculty & Chair of the Sustainability Council “Education should reflect the world we live in.” Who said that? Some famous educator? A successful business person? Oh,...
View ArticleWe are all Socrates (Thoughts on the Ancient Greeks, Part 1 of 3).
By Michael Stelzer Jocks, History Faculty. Socrates I love Socrates. It is hard not to. In an age when physical beauty was all-important, Socrates was notoriously unattractive. Big head, bulging...
View ArticlePotentially Excellent
By Tricia Lunt, English Faculty. I had a professor in graduate school named Dr. Daniel Melnick who rarely gave student work a full-fledged “A”. He nearly always wrote, “potentially excellent, A-“....
View ArticleCultural Literacy in my Classroom.
By Michael Stelzer Jocks, History Faculty. Each of the last three terms, I have taught RMU students about the Holocaust. I created this course on history’s most infamous genocide, and it is, as...
View ArticleShout Out to the Teachers!
By Michael Stelzer Jocks, History Faculty. I was so sad to hear that Comedy Central’s wonderful skit show Key & Peele will be ending this year. The two comedians have done some amazing work over...
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