Presidential Teaching Fellow’s Essay Appears in Chronicle of Higher Education

Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus Howard Wait­zkin, UNM’s 2010–2012 Pres­i­den­tial Teach­ing Fel­low, is the author of an Advice essay that appeared recently in the online ver­sion of the Chron­i­cle of Higher Edu­ca­tion. The essay, “Strangers in Par­adise: Reach­ing Out to Deprived Stu­dents,” pro­vides six key prin­ci­ples for engag­ing stu­dents from low-income, rural fam­i­lies for suc­cess in college.

Drawn from his own hum­ble roots as a col­lege stu­dent and his career-long teach­ing and men­tor­ing of stu­dents from rural New Mex­ico com­mu­ni­ties, the essay also reflects Waitzkin’s pre­sen­ta­tions to fac­ulty groups while serv­ing as Pres­i­den­tial Teach­ing Fellow.

Wait­zkin held fac­ulty appoint­ments at var­i­ous times in Soci­ol­ogy, and Fam­ily and Com­mu­nity Med­i­cine as well a being heav­ily involved in the BA-MD pro­gram, which is high­lighted in his Chron­i­cle essay. The essay can be read at Strangers in Par­adise: Reach­ing Out to Deprived Stu­dents.