Why UW-Whitewater

WHY I TEACH

CHOTON BASU
College of Business and Economics
I teach because I am convinced that a good teacher can help students realize their potential and make a difference in this world... and maybe, just maybe develop a love for lifelong learning.

ROBERT BENJAMIN
College of Letters and Sciences
I teach because it gives me a chance to lie on a bed of nails, spin a bicycle tire filled with concrete, charge people up to 100,000 volts, and inform students with tales of the galaxy.

ELENA BERTOZZI
College of Arts and Communication
It is incredibly rewarding to be able to communicate the intellectual and practical tools that make it possible for students to imagine creative solutions to problems and then actually build them.

BRENDA RUST O'BEIRNE
College of Education
The simple and straightforward answer to why I teach is the "students." They bring joy and challenge and wonder to every moment and every interaction.

LINDA REID
College of Business and Economics
I teach because the consequences of a societal disregard for the value of knowledge are grim. No one said it better than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

ALISON TOWNSEND
College of Letters and Sciences
The room buzzes and hums with energy and excitement. As I look around, their faces seem to glow and I am moved by their collaboration and presence of the creative energy in the room. "This is why I do it," I think to myself.