Sept. 6, 2005 issue

I love to teach at Eastern Michigan University because of each student's unique background and the amount of diversity on campus. Learning about the different cultures allows me to gain a new perspective on the way I teach my students that may even help improve the class.

I attended undergraduate and graduate school at Eastern, which is part of the reason why I was drawn back here. Even before I started attending or teaching here, I would talk to other people about their math experience at other universities, and none of them were as positive or had learned as much.

Some of the professors that I had during my college career were still teaching when I came back to the University. I was actually one of the first to teach the developmental mathematics program and it's so rewarding when I see students do well in upper-level mathematics classes after they have taken Math 97 or 98.

The people in the mathematics program are truly a great group of people to work with. I have never seen a group of teachers that want their students to understand and succeed as much as they do.

Seeing that light bulb go on in their head is another rewarding part of this job. That means they finally get it!

 

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