Matt Terwilliger, ’08 BS, sat down with us to answer questions from Marcel Proust’s famous 19th-century questionnaire. Terwilliger, of Dublin, Ohio, is associate vice president and a certified financial planner with The Edwards Group at Morgan Stanley. He held the Ohio State record as the four-year basketball player with the most wins. What is your […]

His mom always said he’d make a good teacher. So, Christopher Washington, ’99 PhD, steered away from the profession — until he could no longer deny he loved teaching. Now executive vice president and provost at both Franklin and Urbana universities, he is shaping students’ lives more than ever. Q: You came to the college […]

When Gene Folden, ’87 PhD, was in third grade, his teacher asked what he wanted to be. “A comedian and a minister,” he responded. Now the associate chair of the Department of Human Sciences and a Methodist minister, he keeps his students laughing while teaching them valuable life lessons. Q: You’ve taught human development and […]

The summer after eighth grade, Abby Andrews distributed flyers in neighbors’ mailboxes. Her start-up business? Helping kids retain skills they learned during the school year. Today, the 2018 graduate in mathematics education is ready to take on her own classroom. Q: What made you want to be a teacher? A: My mom and most of […]