Dear Readers,
It's the end of the academic year, and I'm certain many of us are contemplating
vacations if we haven't already embarked. The flurry of exams, graduation, end-of-year
reports, and other activities is exhilarating and at the same time exhausting.
At my institution, the "high" of graduation is wearing off, and we
are settling onto our summer routine. All but a few cadets are off campus now,
on leave, on academic trips, or at military training, the music of their voices
replaced by the cacophony of construction equipment, mowers, and weed eaters,
the audible and visible symbols of college summer maintenance. Despite the absence
of our students, our center is still humming, the cadence of our work measured
by the cha-chunk, cha-chunk, cha-chunk of the copy machines, as we prepare for
summer workshops and fall classes. We never completely close our shop, but our
ranks are thinning as we fall out for annual beach duty.
We hope you enjoy this issue of Learning Center Exchange. Our authors are giving our Muses a little vacation next month, but we will be back in August. Have a great summer!
Mona
P.S. I am relocating next month. If you need to contact me, please email me
at edpelkey@juno.com . Thanks!
Questions or comments? Contact the author at edpelkey@juno.com.