...Texas Tech did not award full scholarships, but I won the AT&T Chancellor's Fellowship, a paid fellowship given to only a handful of the university's top incoming graduate students. After grad school, I was a tenured professor at a small liberal arts college. I am also a published poet. (read more)
...Meetings in a casual and relaxed forum is my preference, and it's important for students to identify their own strengths and knowledge base. In the classroom, I apply Socratic principles of "knowing thyself," and I firmly believe that any young person is capable of learning basic English skills ... (read more)