Rick Meadows, Associate Professor of French and Chair of the Division of English, Theatre, Communication, Music, and Foreign Languages, is not the most orthodox professor. He prefers games to lectures in his classes. He uses unusual discussion techniques and frequent visual metaphors. When describing the Liberal Arts, for example, where knowledge is amassed from a variety of sources, Meadows invokes a picture of the Mississippi River whose greatness is owed to the waters of many smaller tributaries. It is an observation uniquely applicable to Meadows who daily draws on a personal history of diverse experience to innovate in the classroom and enrich the lives of his students. Continue reading Dr. Rick Meadows: Learning Like a River →
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Dr. Rick Meadows: Learning Like a River
Rick Meadows, Associate Professor of French and Chair of the Division of English, Theatre, Communication, Music, and Foreign Languages, is not the most orthodox professor. He prefers games to lectures in his classes. He uses unusual discussion techniques and frequent visual metaphors. When describing the Liberal Arts, for example, where knowledge is amassed from a variety of sources, Meadows invokes a picture of the Mississippi River whose greatness is owed to the waters of many smaller tributaries. It is an observation uniquely applicable to Meadows who daily draws on a personal history of diverse experience to innovate in the classroom and enrich the lives of his students. Continue reading Dr. Rick Meadows: Learning Like a River →