Discourse Chronicle

[During this summer, I worked as a Doctoral Graduate Assistant to BGSU’s Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, which started this year. McNair Scholars are first-generation, low-income students OR from underrepresented minorities planning on pursuing PhDs. McNair works with its students and gives them advanced scholarly opportunities as an undergraduate to better train them for graduate education, including grants, conferences, and publication experience.

Today McNair hosted its closing luncheon for its Summer Research Institute (SRI), which consists of three short non-credit courses on library research, research methods, and scholarly and technical writing (which I taught). I also helped develop promotional materials for them including a brochure, newsletter, and upcoming website.

Our first SRI featured six talented scholars and all of them surprised the Assistant Director and I with an official Bowling Green Falcons jar filled with Starburst. I thanked all of them and said that jar will follow me back to the English department when I begin teaching again in the fall. I rarely receive expressions of appreciation in exchange for teaching and mentorship, so I treasure things like the gift our scholars gave me. BK]

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