Ask almost any faculty member, and they will share with you the challenges of teaching in a post-COVID environment.
The biggest impediment is how months and even years of remote learning negatively altered how new students have adapted to traditional academic expectations in college.
Dr. Michael Morgan ’10 is the 41st different person to be named a McCoy Professor at Marietta College since its inception in 1995.
What sets him apart is that he is the first Marietta graduate to receive the College’s most prestigious teaching honor.
Marietta College’s newest McCoy Professor said he enjoys both aspects of his career — teaching students in the Physician Assistant program while also maintaining a busy schedule as a working radiologist.
Nicole Livengood describes her style of teaching as “energetic.”
As an English professor, Dr. Livengood teaches students from a variety of majors. She said her interactive lectures help her engage her students.
Tim Catalano and Kevin Pate were part of the same faculty cohort that arrived at Marietta College in the fall of 2001.
When Dr. Alane Sanders first learned she was selected to be a McCoy Associate Professor of Communication, her first instinct was to tell her students.
“I felt we had earned the honor together and I wanted them to feel that sense of accomplishment,” she said.