Editor's Note, May 2007

Elizabeth Haller
PhD Candidate and English Instructor, Kent State University
E-mail: editoraee@hotmail.com

We invite your continued perusal and encourage you to submit articles, poetry, and fiction for consideration in future issues of AEE.  Please review our Call for Papers on this site for more details on submission requirements.  If you are unsure whether your contribution would be suitable under the terms of our Call for Papers, please send along an inquiry, and I will be happy to respond forthwith.  As always, do not forget to check out Grist for the Mill for possible submission ideas.

Columnist Lynne Fukuda returns with a column article titled “Life Lessons in Air-Travel: What I Learned .”  Fukuda provides the following synopsis for her column:

Dan Lukiv starts off AEE’s feature articles with the continuation of his Haiku series in “Chapter Ten ”.  Familiarize yourself with this series by referring to the March 2006 issue for both the “Introduction” and the “Forward” to this collection as well as the April 2006 through December 2006 issues for chapters one through eight and the March 2007 issue for Chapter Nine.

The second feature of this issue, “Rain Gardens: A Beautiful Service Learning Project”, comes to us from Kitrina Carlson.  According to Carlson:  “This essay suggests the need for pedagogical changes in STEM education and introduces service-learning as a means for improved engagement in STEM students.  It also details an instructors STEM service-learning project based on design and installation of community rain gardens.”

The final feature of this issue is titled “Service Learning Is a Pathway to Authority and Understanding.”  Author Wayne Tanna states: 
            Service learning is an effective way for students and teachers to see life as it is and life as it             could be.  We may not be able to change the entire worl, but we can do our part to help             small but significant parts of our own community. . . . Few would ever think that a tax             class could do something to move families out of poverty and homelessness, but it already             has. While this essay focuses on a low-income taxpayer clinic performed through an             accounting class, the concept is applicable to many other disciplines and classes.

S. Purcell Woodard’s poem “To Our Graduates with Humility” is this month’s Poet’s Corner contribution.  Woodard states: “One of our graduating seniors asked me to speak at the National Society of Black Engineers, UW chapter’s graduation ceremony in June 2006.  This piece/peace is my take on the legacy that he and the other graduates were simultaneously joining and creating.”

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