Why You Might Love Working at a Teaching College
From Chronicle of Higher Ed
James Lang’s reflections on working at a teaching college and attending a conference about rewards of such a position:
“We all talked about how our institutions gave us the opportunity to make a palpable, positive difference to the young people who enrolled in our courses and visited our offices. We all worked with large populations of first-generation college students and with students who worked long hours to help pay for school. We all took great satisfaction in helping them discover new opportunities in their lives.”
“At teaching institutions, though, making such a difference constitutes the main focus of our work. We are drawn to the job from a devotion to students — we are evaluated on it and rewarded for it in the tenure-and-promotion process. It constitutes the fuel that fires our passions. I see it every semester in the dedication of my colleagues, and I heard it from the mouths of every professor or administrator who spoke at that conference.”
More about teaching at a teaching college on this blog: Teaching at teaching-intensive institutions
