Wilmington University recently acknowledged Mike Dixon’s work as a scholar-practitioner with a promotion to Adjunct Assistant Professor. Promotion in academic rank takes into consideration the quality of classroom engagement and scholarly contributions to the professor’s discipline. He teaches history and humanities courses in the University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Mike focuses on social…
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Wilmington University Professor Michael Dixon
Wilmington University History adjunct Michael Dixon teaches students how to conduct investigations into a well-hidden past. In Michael Dixon’s case, he was indeed made by history. For him, even from childhood, history has been and continues to be his life. But not history of the high and mighty, though Dixon, an author, writer, speaker and…
I Teach at Harford
As part of its 60th anniversary campaign, Harford Community College is highlighting the success of the faculty and students, and this billboard recently went up in the County.
Finding the Past While Strolling Delaware Communities With a Class
Communities all around Delaware make excellent learning laboratories for classes that are seeking to increase historial-thinking and understand the evolution of our 21st century environment. With that in mind, I often take undergraduates out for fieldwork, especially this time of year as autumn gets underway on the Peninsula and the days are ideal for strolling. The focus of these experiential learning…