The Inspiration

How many professors go back to school in the middle of their careers?  Not a workshop, or to a continuing education course, but back to the life of a student.

I did.

From the moment I enrolled for my second graduate degree, I was learning more and more about what my students were going through.  Sure, I had my MBA, but that was before I started teaching.  This experience gave me the vantage point of a student–from first day to final assignment, and it changed me…it changed how I taught my students, and what I deemed necessary…

…and that’s how ELEM was “born.”