Katherine Rogers says Dr. Buddy Landry saw something in her before she saw it in herself. As she was finishing up her bachelor’s degree in psychology, he kept encouraging her toward getting a Master of Arts in marriage and family …
The Art of Becoming
Stewart Hawley says the feeling is strange and a little hard to describe, but a lot of theatre people have it. “There’s a yearning; you feel like acting is what you have to do to use your art to connect …
Finding Purpose in ‘Plan B’
Julie Hatcher Ralph ’92 Julie Hatcher Ralph said one thing she’s learned over the years is this — sometimes Plan B is better than Plan A. It was a lesson that started the moment she set foot on the University …
Known for Possibilities
Dr. Julie Biskner has no problem admitting she didn’t care for politics when she was younger. “All the way through high school, I hated history. I hated politics. I thought it was really boring,” she said. The topic she loved …
Known for Compassion
Dr. Sarah Witherspoon ’94 & ’96 Dr. Sarah Witherspoon ’94 & ’96 says she loves to read people. She starts doing that the minute students walk into her classroom on the first day of a new semester — and she …
Personal Chemistry
All the students who walk into Wanda Jones’ classroom are walking chemistry experiments — they just may not realize it yet. “We live this kind of science all the time,” she said. “For instance, if you get sick, you take …
Art that Speaks
Phillip Counselman says verbal expression isn’t his natural comfort zone. He’s a man of few words. And of all the topics he thought he might spend those words on this year, his boat definitely wasn’t one of them. “I never …
Expect a Surprise | Dr. Karen Dennis
Karen Dennis says she vividly remembers the day when she realized all the things she had been trained to do weren’t enough. Her nephew was struggling to read, and it seemed no one could help him. Dennis, a young teacherat …
Understand the Past | Dr. Matthew Downs
Matthew Downs says the first thing he asks every new class is simply this — “Do you like history?” “They can tell me ‘no’ — that’s totally fine,” he said. “But what I want them to know and take away …