Eldon Enger,
Delta College Frederick Ross,
Delta College David B. Bailey,
Delta College
ISBN: 0072552891 Copyright year: 2005
About the Authors
Eldon D. Enger
Eldon D. Enger is a professor emeritus of biology at Delta College, a community college near Saginaw, Michigan. He received his B.A. and M.S. degrees from the University of Michigan. Professor Enger has over 30 years of teaching experience, during which he taught biology, zoology, environmental science, and several other courses, and he was very active in curriculum and course development. He was instrumental in the development of a learning community course in stream ecology, which involved students in two weekend activities including canoeing and camping, and a plant identification course that incorporated weekend field activities with backpacking and camping. In addition, he was involved in the development of an environmental regulations course and an environmental technician curriculum.
Professor Enger is an advocate for variety in teaching methodology. He feels that if students are provided with varied experiences, they are more likely to learn. In addition to the standard textbook assignments, lectures, and laboratory activities, his classes were likely to include writing assignments, student presentation of lecture material, debates by students on controversial issues, field experiences, individual student projects, and discussions of local examples and relevant current events. Textbooks are very valuable for presenting content, especially if they contain accurate, informative drawings and visual examples. Lectures are best used to help students see themes and make connections, and laboratory activities provide important hands-on activities.
Professor Enger has been a Fulbright Exchange Teacher to Australia and Scotland, received the Bergstein Award for Teaching Excellence and the Scholarly Achievement Award from Delta College, and participated as a volunteer in an Earthwatch Research Program in Costa Rica, studying the behavior of a bird known as the long-tailed manakin. He has also visited Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Fiji, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canada, Morocco, many areas in Europe, and much of the United States. During these travels he has spent considerable time visiting coral reefs, ocean coasts, mangrove swamps, alpine tundra, prairies, tropical rainforests, cloud forests, deserts, temperate rainforests, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, and many other special ecosystems. This extensive experience provides the background to look at environmental issues from a broad perspective.
Professor Enger is married, has two sons, and enjoys a variety of outdoor pursuits such as cross-country skiing, hiking, hunting, fishing, camping and gardening. Other interests include reading a wide variety of periodicals, beekeeping, singing in a church choir, and preserving garden produce.
Frederick C. Ross
Fred Ross is a professor emeritus of biology at Delta College, a community college near Saginaw, Michigan. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, and has attended several other universities and institutions. Professor Ross has over 30 years teaching experience, including junior and senior high school, during which he taught biology, cell biology and biological chemistry, microbiology, environmental science, and zoology. He has been very active in curriculum development and has also developed courses in "Infection Control and Microbiology," "AIDS and Infectious Diseases," and a PBS ScienceLine course for elementary and secondary education
majors. In addition, he was involved in the development of the waste water microbiology technician curriculum offered by Delta College.
He has also been actively involved in the National Task Force of Two Year College Biologists (American Institute of Biological Sciences); N.S.F. College Science Improvement Program (COSIP); Evaluator for Science and Engineering Fairs; Michigan Community College Biologists (MCCB); Judge for the Michigan Science Olympiad and the Science Bowl; a member of the committee to develop and update Blood-borne Pathogen Standards protocol; a member of the Topic Outlines in Introductory Microbiology Study Group of the American Society for Microbiology; and member of Sigma Xi, honor society for scientists and engineers. He is the author of a college textbook for allied health science and also one of the coauthors of the McGraw-Hill textbook Integrated Science (Bill Tillery, E. Enger, and F. Ross), a comprehensive text focused on students entering the teaching profession.
Professor Ross involved his students in a variety of learning techniques and was a prime advocate of writing-to-learn. Besides writing, his students were typically engaged in active learning techniques including use of inquiry based learning, the Internet, e-mail communications, field experiences, classroom presentation, as well as lab work. The goal of his classroom presentations was to actively engage the minds of his students in understanding the material, not just memorization of 'scientific facts.'
Professor Ross is married and recently a grandfather. He enjoys sailing and horseback riding as well as cross-country skiing.
David B. Bailey
David B. Bailey is an associate professor of biology at Delta College, a community college near Saginaw, Michigan. He received his B.A. from Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio and his Ph. D. from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. His doctoral thesis addressed the maintenance of gene expression patterns during fruit fly development. Dr. Bailey has been teaching in classrooms and labs for 10 years in both community colleges and 4-year institutions. He has taught General Biology, Introductory Zoology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Genetics, and Microbiology. During his tenure at Delta College he has been both student and teacher in face-to-face settings and in classes delivered through the internet. Dr. Bailey is currently developing a course for instructors to address classroom diversity appreciation and conflict resolution.
Dr. Bailey strives to emphasize critical thinking skills and to provide a safe learning environment where students can learn from each other. Practicing the scientific method and participating in discussions of literature, religion and movies, students are able to learn how to practice appropriate use of different critical thinking styles. Comparing different methods of critical thinking for each of these areas, students develop a much more rounded perspective on their world.
Professor Bailey’s community involvement includes participating with the Michigan Science Olympiad. In his spare time, he enjoys camping, swimming, beekeeping, wine-making, and viewing live performances.
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