In-Class Evaluations: An African American Perspective.

Yesterday, I finished my FIRST in-class evaluation for the tenure-track process. I was very nervous before my chair visited my class, but as time progressed I realized that I did not notice that he was in the classroom. I mentally prepared myself for the evaluation and I intrapersonally repeated... "I am going to treat this day like any other day." One of the students even verbally commented, "I didn't even know that you were having an evaluation. When my other professors have their evaluations, they act fake and you didn't."

I hope that it went well.

Writing Dates! - What a GREAT Idea!

The Writing Date

The Chronicle of Higher Education had an interesting article yesterday pertaining to scholarly writing. It was called "The Writing Date" and it was written by Rachel Toor. This article was centered around the concept of "writing dates" or the weekly/monthly dates that we schedule with ourselves to write our scholarly work. I will definitely adopt the "writing date" concept for my daily writing (this blog) and my weekly writing (scholarly research).

I have to dedicate some time to the scholarly article concepts that I listed in the prior blog. If I schedule dates with myself, then I might get a few articles complete by the summer. A few articles are currently under review and I hope to hear back from those editors soon. I pray that the outcome is positive.
To keep myself accountable, I will do the following:
a) Contribute at least three blog posts a week.

b) Schedule at least two "writing dates" a week.

c) Read at least one book a week.

Please do the same. We will keep each other accountable. :)

Publishing Revisited...

Publishing is important...they say. I intrapersonally reply, "Important eh? I need to research something that has future implications in my life and in the lives of others... Can publishing accomplish this?"

Sure it can, publishing is important. Important enough for me to spend 7:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. polishing my faculty evaluation packet with current publications.

Believe it or not, I have almost 10 publications "in process". Now the term, "in process" is relative and can be misconstrued, thus begins the clarification process... For me, the term "in process" means that I have a Word 2007 document for the following topics (included by not limited to):

1. Engaging business and professional speaking students in a small group-based business plan competition.

2. Supports for and barriers to on-time graduation as perceived by Hispanic American undergraduate students attending historically black colleges and universities and historically white colleges and universities.

3. Student engagement and the high school science classroom.

4. Service learning and the intercultural communication classroom.

5. Communication among African American undergraduate students and academic advisers.

6. Undergraduate students’ perceptions of the future implications of facebook and myspace.

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