It's been a while since I've updated this blog and it is high time I went back to blogging. As many of you know, I became Faculty Senate President at SMU back in May, and having that role in the middle of a pandemic has certainly been interesting. Colleagues always comment that I got a lot more work than I expected from the role when I ran for President-Elect back in the spring of 2019, and that is true, but I have also gotten a lot of joy and reward from advocating for my fellow faculty members and I keep saying that, if someone has to be Faculty Senate President in the times of COVID-19, I'd rather have it be me, because if I'm going to do that job, I might as well have an impact. So as I said in my remarks to faculty at the university-wide faculty meeting in late August, I am so glad I am Faculty Senate President this year.
Also, there is simply no way I would have met so many of my talented colleagues both on the faculty and on the staff, or learned how many phenomenal things they are doing, without being involved in the Faculty Senate, and I'll leave you with a couple of books my colleagues have written recently.
The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovern by Thomas Knock
Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia by Stephanie Langin-Hooper
How to get tenure by Michael Harris
(Coming soon) Reconstructing the corporation by Grant Hayden (and Saint Louis University professor Matthew Bodie)
Art and Vision in the Inca Empire by Adam Herring
(Coming soon) Decoding the digital church by Stephanie (Sam) A. Martin
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