E-mail helps us stay closer in touch these days with distant members of our community, and many can read the Earlham Word online, but we look forward to more detailed reports when they return. I am teaching a course at Earlham for the first time this semester. Getting ready to teach the course has given me yet another chance to look at Earlham closely, this time through the eyes of a teacher. I've been impressed. And with another mouse-click I can send an e mail message to the whole class.
Conversations begun in one class session can continue on-line in the days that follow.
Bibliographic instruction has long been a distinctive excellence of an Earlham education. One clear view I have of the quality of teaching at Earlham comes in gauging the expectations of the two dozen students now in my class. These expectations have been shaped and raised very high by courses they have already taken. I have met the class three times so far. Already I hear, playing back through the classroom, strands of conversations the students have had with other faculty.