What changed my mind about getting a doctorate is the university stressed research over teaching. I wanted to teach.

Research is all about teaching and learning. This demonstrates what students can do and achieve at a research university.

The building expresses in its original architecture and design the idea of a research and teaching university. The building looks traditional but the idea behind it was radical.

We all started somewhere. When I started teaching at the university level, I didn't want to teach freshmen. Then I saw that you have the biggest impact on people who have the least experience. I have a special place in my heart for the novice player.

the single most promising composition student that I have worked with in my 37 years of university teaching.

We all know the saying that if you give a man a fish you feed him for a day, but if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. What we don’t know is that if we teach a man to teach another how to fish, we feed a whole tribe for lifetimes to come.