This NCFR member, sitting in a coffee shop, made a few observations about an older couple sitting nearby-observations on caregiving, on aging and on her field of medical family therapy.
In this community blog, we have a rate treat. Kari Adamsons, Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut, sings of her frustrations in grading. To be sung to the classic Don McLean tune, here is her humorous parody, "Why, Why is my Grade not so High?"
By Maria Schmeekle, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology at Illinois State Unversity
Posted by Nancy Gonzalez | April 04, 2012
Maria Schmeekle, Professor of Sociology at Illinois State, teaches family studies through a global lens. She began experimenting with a global/transnational/comparative approach in her Marriage and Family class. This kind of approach felt vital to her in a world that is increasingly interconnected, a world that we are sending students out to navigate. In this article, she offers some valuable tips.
