We all need proof of worth

Posted on | May 4, 2010 | No Comments

How do you know what you are doing has any value beyond allowing you to pay your bills?

Do you actually care?

I do!

And like many professors I often wonder if anything I am doing is actually having an impact on the future.

By the future I mean are my students taking any of the lessons, internalizing them in some way and making use of the aggregate in the future.

Well last night I had a conversation with  2002 Zayed University graduate, one of the 1st students I taught int he UAE.

Sure this is not a statistical sample!

But there is no question that the education WE provided at Zayed University had an impact on this student, even if it was tiny, it was an impact.

Farah is doing some very clever things and has a hunger to engage in social experiments!

Listen to our conversation to hear what I am talking about!

It made me feel pretty good to know that this person thought that there was some value to the education I helped deliver.

I think we need to see and hear the product of what we do in the ivory tower a little more often!

Thanks Farah!

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