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Capsule Personal Beliefs:
- Believe in the power of literature: literature study
will make it possible for us to become and remain blissfully, rewardingly,
and meaningfully human in all areas of our emotional, mental, civic,
cognitive, and spiritual endeavors;
- Believe in the power of writing well as an extension
of and witness to our best selves;
- Believe in an ethical humanist pedagogy of positive
possibility: Teaching is a redemptive calling whereby to discover, nourish,
and help to realize students’ ideal visions of themselves in their academic
and chosen life paths;
- Believe in the efficaciousness of displaying students’
academic successes publicly on campus and beyond in visible, materially
tangible ways;
- Believe in constancy in professional and scholarly
self-betterment, collegiality in colloquy, collaboration in pedagogy, and
congeniality in interpersonal regard;
- Believe in being different: difference is a sign of
imaginativeness, creativity, and empowering force.
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