Patrick C. Fleming

One of the things you come to learn, when teaching your first few standalone classes, is how much (or, more accurately, how little) material you can cover during class time. I worked for the Teaching Resource Center as a graduate student, and consulted both formally and informally about putting together syllabi. I was told, and

As I mentioned earlier, I missed the week-long orientation for new faculty. But the college is committed to helping us transition, so we have periodic meetings throughout the semester, the first of which was this week. In addition to meeting the other new arrivals — all from different departments — I got to hear the