Category: Professional Notes

Kelly Comments on Local Teacher Shortage

College of Education Dean Pete Kelly contributed to a Fredericksburg Today article titled “An ‘enormous hat rack’: Here’s everything educators want you to know about the local teacher shortage. At the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year, there were 1,000 vacant teaching positions across the state, an already untenable situation according to the University of Mary […]

Farnsworth Comments on Virginia Key Political Race

Professor of Political Science Stephen Farnsworth spoke about Virginia’s 7th Congressional District race in an article titled “Spanberger flips the script on policing in race against auxiliary deputy,” which ran in The Washington Post and Hero Mag. In the article, Farnsworth said that, while Republicans have had a firm hold on the “law-and-order” messaging in recent […]

Fallon Reviews Major Book on African Languages

Associate Professor Paul D. Fallon of the Department of English and Linguistics was invited to review The Oxford Handbook of African Languages, edited by Rainer Vossen & Gerrit Dimmendaal, and published by Oxford University Press in 2020. His review appears online in The Linguistic List vol. 33, number 2209. The Linguist List is a major […]