International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 2, Number 1, January 2008

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Personal Reflection

Excerpt

We Will Teach Them… How?

A few years ago I attended a Faculty Development Conference sponsored by the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education.  One of the keynote addresses was given by Dr. Robert Weisbuch, President of Drew University.  At the time of the conference, Dr. Weisbuch was the President of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and his talk focused on the role of liberal arts in higher education.  Throughout his talk he paraphrased a quote from William Wordsworth.  Dr. Weisbuch words were “Others will love what we have loved, and we must teach them.”  I had never heard that quote before and hearing those words brought back many fond memories.  They reminded me of the chemistry experiments in my grandmother’s bathroom, my own undergraduate education and the many late nights in the laboratory during graduate school.  My teachers and mentors had an attentive student on their hands as I loved my discipline and wanted to learn about all aspects of the chemical sciences.  Since becoming a teacher and a research mentor, I have encountered many students with a love and passion for my discipline and it has been a pleasure working with these young men and women. 

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Bio

Ricky Cox
Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky, USA
ricky.cox@murraystate.edu

I received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and am currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Murray State University (MSU). During the 2005-2006 academic year, I was awarded a Board of Regents Teaching Award for the College of Science, Engineering and Technology and served as the Teaching Scholar-in-Residence in the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology at MSU. My disciplinary research involves the study of enzymes involved in the bacterial resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics. Through grants from Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, I am also investigating the value of tablet PC technology in teaching and learning. I am a current member of the national advisory board for the Teaching Professor Conference. Website: http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/ricky.cox/ricky.html

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International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning is a publication of the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA.