\u201cI’m excited\u2014and just a little\u2026nervous.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not a word you usually hear from Haines Professor of Biochemistry Ann Taylor, chair of the College\u2019s natural sciences division, as she heads out on sabbatical.<\/p>\n
But this time is a little different.<\/p>\n
This fall she\u2019s traveling to teach chemistry at Harlaxton College in England, where her husband, Patrick, and children\u2014Henry, Harmony, and Hope\u2014 will join her. Then she\u2019s back to Indiana in January, where, as one of 39 national leaders in higher education earning a fellowship from the American Council on Education (ACE), she\u2019ll be studying, among other issues, best practices in developing faculty and student leaders.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am particularly interested in the transition from receiving tenure into a faculty member\u2019s first significant leadership role, and I also want to study models of developing student leadership through course-based activities,\u201d says Taylor, who created the curriculum and courses for the College\u2019s biochemistry major while also working with students to make scientific progress more easily understood by the general public.<\/p>\n
The ACE Fellows Program is the premier higher-education leadership-development program for preparing senior leaders to serve American colleges and universities. Over the past 50 years, more than 2,000 higher education leaders have participated in the ACE Fellows Program, with more than 80 percent going on to serve as senior leaders of colleges and universities. Taylor will be based at Ball State University for her work in the program.<\/p>\n
But first comes Harlaxton.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an adventure for my family,\u201d Taylor says of the upcoming year. \u201cAnd for me too. It\u2019s exciting to be a student again. There\u2019s so much to learn\u2014a new place, new schedule, new people.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything is going to be different, just like it is for our students when they arrive at Wabash. That\u2019s easy to forget, because it\u2019s much the same for us year after year, but for them, it\u2019s all new, all different. It\u2019s good to be reminded of what that feels like.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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