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"Taking curiosity about the behavior of all organisms and combining it with disciplined scientific methodology -- the result generates NEW knowledge. Don't study yesterday's explanation of human behavior: help create tomorrow's advanced understanding. Come find out how!"

"The most enjoyable thing about teaching for me is that is allows me to keep learning every day. With each new student and each new semester, I discover some aspect of the topics we cover that I hadn't considered before, and I discover some part of myself that I hadn't highlighted before. Also, teaching keeps me honest. I can't teach social work without constantly re-evaluating how I live my life and what messages I am sending with my actions, so i have to be real and true and open to whatever is going on around me, and I love that."

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 “The truly great teacher doesn’t merely ‘cover’ subject matter, she creatively ‘uncovers’ it – striving to make subject matter ‘matter’.”  Sue Sheridan

I love teaching and watching excitement for higher learning ignite in my students.”

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"Sociology is an awesome field because it applies to everyday life! Everything we do daily involves sociology.  It helps us see the strange in a familiar way. It helps us recognize general patterns in the behavior of people and it helps to explain how society shapes our personal choices."

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"Do not expect to sit and be lectured at when taking my classes. I love interactive, exciting and energetic classrooms and feel that students learn best when they are engaged and challenged."

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"After working for the Texas prison system for thirty years, my parole to West Texas A&M University is like making it to heaven. Students are fairly easy to manage after dealing with robbers, rapists and murderers and a lot more fun. Come take a class in criminal justice or sociology and learn why it is better to be a student than a convict."

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"I thoroughly enjoy introducing students to a profession I love - the profession of social work. Ours is a profession that treats people with respect and dignity without asking, 'Does this person deserve respect?' Ours is a profession that values relationships between humans and seeks to enhance those relationships. I want to replenish our profession with dedicated and well-educated, young social workers. That is why I am at WTAMU."

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