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Q&A WITH
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE
a teacher I had only had for
a month, for the first time
she was just really nice,
called my parents, got my
number and e-mail address,
e-mailed my mom, just
kept up with me,” Wills
said. “It was just an effort
she didn’t have to make,
and I’ve never seen a teach
er at UGA make before,
and it brought UGA a lot
smaller to me. It made
UGA feel a little bit like a
smaller school.”
Wills said Craige found
out about his injury after
his mother posted on the
class's eLearning Commons
discussion board.
“And then he posted, or
his mother posted, some
thing on the eLearning
Commons about his acci
dent. And then, I wrote
them, and sort of got
involved," Craige said.
Wills said Craige
e-mailed and called him
throughout his hospital
stay. When he returned to
the University in May. she
continued to check in to
see how he was doing.
Wills said, for him, being
back at the University so
soon after his injury was a
personal triumph. He said
knowing that a professor
cared about his education
and .well-being made his
journey back much easier.
“My parents have never
been huge advocates of
such a big school, I would
say. You know, you don’t
feel like you’re getting a
personal education, you
don’t feel like teachers real
ly care that much about
you. And for one of my pro
fessors especially a
senior professor like Dr.
Craige, a tenured professor
like Dr. Craige to check
on me to make sure every
thing’s OK, it seems like
she cares about my educa
tion,” Wills said. “I know it
might not seem like that
big of a deal, but when
you’re in the hospital and
you don’t have anyone else
to talk to, when your teach
er e-mails you, that’s pretty
cool.”
The classroom community
Students in Craige’s
classes get to know each
other very quickly.
“Everyone has to use
each other’s names when
discussing during class dis
cussions, so they have to
learn each other’s names,”
film.”
How much longer do you see yourself doing
this?
“The Three Stooges did it ’til they were 60.
... We don’t know how much longer we’re
doing it, but we aren’t making any predic
tions."
Is it hard coming up with new ideas?
“Yeah, it was easier coming up with ideas
for this movie than any of ’em. We have a
stockpile of ideas that we didn’t even get to
use. And the 3-D camera really lent itself to a
lot of stuff.”
Any point or reason when you’d turn down a
stunt?
“No the only time I wouldn’t do a stunt
is if there’s a negative vibe on the set, like a
dark vibe going around and I’ll say, ’Hey, let’s
not do it today.’”
—Adam Carlson
Craige said. “And they form
friendships in the class with
each other, and I think that
makes them er\joy the class
better. The class becomes a
community.”
Craige said her class is
based on discussion. Every
class period, two students
lead the discussion.
“I get happy when I walk
into class and the two stu
dents are already there,
seated at the table, all
excited about leading the
class discussion. I think
students like to do that,”
Craige said.
Craige said her class also
involves a lot of reading
and writing. She said she
encourages all her students
to think of themselves as
future leaders and tries to
tailor her class to help stu
dents develop their think
ing skills.
“I don’t know how to
solve any problems. One
student asked me, ‘We dis
cuss all these problems, but
we don’t discuss, we don’t
find out what the solution
is.’ And I say, “It's gonna be
up to your generation to
find solutions, but you need
to understand the prob
lems,”’ she said. “And there
are lots of solutions; there’s
no one right way to think.
Which is another reason I
teach by discussion,
because I believe that
there’s no one right way to
think.”
Craige encourages stu
dents to voice their opin
ions about the topics dis
cussed in her class. Her
only rule is everyone must
be polite and sweet.
“I hadn’t used the word
‘community’ before [to
describe my class], but that
is what I think I accomplish
most in the classroom,” she
said. “That I turn the class
into a community of envi
ronmental thinkers. Who
like each other. That’s
important.”
Wills said Craige tries to
tailor the class to each indi
vidual student’s interests.
“For example, we have
one book that we can
choose to read and write a
paper on at the end of the
semester. She sort of helps
people pick books that
relate to what they're
studying, that also relate to
environmental criticism,”
Wills said. “That’s a pretty
cool thing to do. She's very
passionate about students'
education.”
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▲ Betty Jean Craige teaches a class in ecocriticism in the University’s
department of comparative literature. She will retire on Aug. 1, 2011.
Life of a scholar
Craige said her research
has been influenced and
benefited from her time at
the University, getting to
interact with faculty from
other departments.
“That has enriched my
life immensely. And that is
one of the wonderful
aspects of being faculty at
a large university, ” she
said. “You can get to know
people who do all kinds of
things different from you."
Craige’s books vary in
topic from Eugene Odom
to the emerging holistic
way of thinking in topics
such as civil rights, femi
nism and patriotism to her
more recent book about
her pet parrot, Cosmo.
“At the time I wanted to
see, and I’ve always been
interested in, in learning
about how individuals
from other species think,”
Craige said. “And you
know, we’ve got studies of
dolphin language and
gorilla language, and I’ve
always been interested in
Award-winning professor
still cares about students
By ALEX LAUGHLIN
The Red & Buck
Professor John Knox spends
about 70 percent of his time teach
ing four classes. And he said teach
ing is the most important aspect of
his work.
But today, he’ll be honored for his
research.
Knox, a professor in the geogra
phy department, is the winner of the
National Weather Association’s T.
Theodore Fujita Research
Achievement Award.
The Fbjita Award is the NWA’s
only research-related award.
It is named for the inventor of the
Scale, which is used to rate
tornado Intensity.
Knox’s award-winning research,
which is on clear-air turbulence, was
sparked 15 years ago by a coinciden
tal confrontation at a conference in
1995.
Knox was giving a poster presen
tation when someone approached
him with an idea.
“A fellow walked up to me and
asked, ‘What does your research
have to do with clear-air turbu
lence?’ I had no idea,” he said.
Knox, a year from finishing his
doctoral studies on mid-latitude
cyclones in the stratosphere, spent
the next month in the library learn
ing as much as he could about clear
air turbulence forecasting.
The result of this research was a
chapter of his Ph D. thesis and 15
years of study leading up to this
award.
“I like to tell students that this is
evidence of how serendipity works,”
Knox said. “Because it was a chance
encounter, but I was able to follow
that. Cosmo has taught me
lots of things, but she has
a great sense of humor. I
have a harder time than I
expected seeing the differ
ence between a bird’s per
sonality and a human per
sonality, because Cosmo’s
is sort of like mine.”
Craige said the main
research that has driven
her in her life and that she
tries to pass on to stu
dents is the idea of holism,
or the Interconnectivity of
things.
“It’s kind of a philo
sophical way of looking at
things. And that’s what
I’ve written about most,”
Craige said. “What I think
I’ve accomplished there is
to teach these students
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up on it and develop an entirely
unexpected line of research that
now has led to a national award.”
That Knox can maintain a bal
ance between research and teaching
speaks of his priorities as a teacher.
“I think at heart I’m a teacher,”
Knox said. “I like opening new doors
for students. I like conveying new
information and hopefully some
times wisdom to the next generation
as well.”
On the first day of classes this
semester, students walked into
KNOX
respond to his enthusiasm for teach
ing.
A search of “John Knox” on rate
myprofessor.com reveals 14 pages of
students’ ravings about him.
One former student wrote, “do
not leave UGA without taking a
class from prof. Knox. Great teach
er.”
Knox will receive his award at the
NWA meeting in Tucson, Ariz.,
today.
The catch?
He will have to miss class to
accept the award.
"Missing class is absolutely the
last thing I want to do, but for an
honor like this, I have to go,” he
said.
Knox’s introductory
geography class to
hear Thomas Dolby’s
“She Blinded Me
with Science” play
ing over the speak
ers.
Knox said he
wants to make his
classes enjoyable so
students want to
attend.
And students
how to think about the
world in anew way. It’s not
that I’ve given them a body
of knowledge l’ve given
them a way to think about
nature.”
Wills said the University
community will be a little
less rich with the depar
ture of Craige next year.
“She’s been teaching at
UOA for almost 40 years,
she made a lot of progress,
she’s a great advocate for
civil rights,” Wills said. “I
have a lot of respect for
her. She’s a strong person.
I have her again this
semester, starting the class
back that I dropped out of
last semester. And I just
think she’s a great person.
She’s wonderful.”
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