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Robert “Bobby” Wells is a visiting professor and future faculty teaching fellow at IU Southeast, teaching topics in history from Napoleon to Vikings and pirates. Photo by John Renfrow.

Temporary teachers strive for tenure and experience

John Renfrow, Editor in Chief March 20, 2019

Robert “Bobby”  Wells begins his pirate class like any other teacher with orthodox greetings, attendance, slideshows and questions. From there, the class voyages everywhere from Viking-controlled...

Faculty mentors

Faculty mentors

Jordan Williams, Staff Reporter November 16, 2015

The course instructor enters the classroom and routinely greets the students scattered before them. Preliminary discussion points for the day are scribbled on the whiteboard with a fading marker and the...

Opinion: Deciding on a major in school, not life

Opinion: Deciding on a major in school, not life

Chelsey Carr, News Editor August 24, 2015

Anxiety bubbles its way through my stomach as I await the next, inevitable question, "What’s your major?" As a direct admit to the School of Journalism at IU Bloomington my freshman year, life seemed...

College — no place for easy A’s

IUS Horizon October 21, 2012
As students graduate high school and plan to take on the next milestone by attending college, some are often plagued with the naive belief that college will be the same as high school. For instance, in high school, some students may not have had to put much effort into achieving an A on a test, but, in college, grades are supposed to be rigorously earned. One should expect the standard would increase at a higher institution of learning in regard to academic success and the motivation to try.
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