Doug Telling This is Me

Education

 Web References

1. 1. The Gatepost - News

   www.thegatepost.com/archives/s - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/30/2001   Last Visited: 6/12/2003

   Doug Telling Professor of Government
   ...
   Telling: I went to undergraduate school at Beloit College in Wisconsin and I went to graduate school at at UMass Amherst.
   
   GP: What courses do you teach? Telling:Basically, I teach American politics. I teach world politics in the fall.
   
   GP: How long have you been a professor at FSC? Telling:This is my second semester back. I taught [at FSC] part-time in 1986-1988.
   
   GP: What did you do before you began working at FSC? Telling:From graduate school, I came here. I taught at other colleges for eight years. And I taught at a private secondary school.
   
   GP: What is the most rewarding aspect of your job? Telling: I like working in the classroom best and with students, pursuing their ideas and ideas I want them to pursue ... When I taught in high school, I saw students grow up intellectually and educationally. I enjoy watching them get it.
   
   GP:When you are not teaching, how do you enjoy spending your time? Telling:Grading. That is it. I don't enjoy it, but that's what I tend to be doing. I spend a lot of my time outside of work working on my land, plowing, collecting firewood and painting the house.
   
   GP: What's the most challenging part of your job? Telling:Students probably say the thing I do the least well is taking complicated things and breaking them down to make them more understandable or manageable. The other thing is staying awake in the car during my two-hour commute. Staying awake is easy once I get here. GP: What advice would you give to students?
   
   GP: What advice would you give to students? Telling:Take advantage of the speakers, lecturers and music. Take courses in their major and ones that students otherwise wouldn't. There are not too many times to sit and read and learn a novel or learn about geology after college. The other thing is to work hard because it will pay off in the end. [In college] students learn skills that they will use again in ways they wouldn't expect.
   
   GP: Are there any goals you would like to achieve in the future? Telling: : I have been working on and off on my writing and trying to get a book, an essay or website published about my great aunt who was a portrait maker and traveled to Central America [- to] Bali, Malaysia, Mexico and Guatemala. She had a great time, too.

2. 2. The Gatepost - News

   www.thegatepost.com/archives/s - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/30/2001   Last Visited: 2/3/2004

   Doug Telling Professor of Government
   ...
   Telling: I went to undergraduate school at Beloit College in Wisconsin and I went to graduate school at at UMass Amherst.
   
   GP: What courses do you teach? Telling:Basically, I teach American politics. I teach world politics in the fall.
   
   GP: How long have you been a professor at FSC? Telling:This is my second semester back. I taught [at FSC] part-time in 1986-1988.
   
   GP: What did you do before you began working at FSC? Telling:From graduate school, I came here. I taught at other colleges for eight years. And I taught at a private secondary school.
   
   GP: What is the most rewarding aspect of your job? Telling: I like working in the classroom best and with students, pursuing their ideas and ideas I want them to pursue ... When I taught in high school, I saw students grow up intellectually and educationally. I enjoy watching them get it.
   
   GP:When you are not teaching, how do you enjoy spending your time? Telling:Grading. That is it. I don't enjoy it, but that's what I tend to be doing. I spend a lot of my time outside of work working on my land, plowing, collecting firewood and painting the house.
   
   GP: What's the most challenging part of your job? Telling:Students probably say the thing I do the least well is taking complicated things and breaking them down to make them more understandable or manageable. The other thing is staying awake in the car during my two-hour commute. Staying awake is easy once I get here. GP: What advice would you give to students?
   
   GP: What advice would you give to students? Telling:Take advantage of the speakers, lecturers and music. Take courses in their major and ones that students otherwise wouldn't. There are not too many times to sit and read and learn a novel or learn about geology after college. The other thing is to work hard because it will pay off in the end. [In college] students learn skills that they will use again in ways they wouldn't expect.
   
   GP: Are there any goals you would like to achieve in the future? Telling: : I have been working on and off on my writing and trying to get a book, an essay or website published about my great aunt who was a portrait maker and traveled to Central America [- to] Bali, Malaysia, Mexico and Guatemala. She had a great time, too.