Howard Sanborn

At a liberal arts college, teaching is a professor’s primary domain. These efforts are informed by scholarly engagement through peer-review and conference presentations. Teaching and research, in turn, buoy a professor’s service work, manifest in the programmatic and curricular decisions that create enriching opportunities for students and colleagues across campus.

For other examples of my work in these domains, please see the following links on

Teaching

• my teaching, in a press release authored by the communications office of my undergraduate alma mater, Washington and Lee University (from 2012).
• the work my colleagues and I have done to educate students about Asia (2015) and establish an Asian Studies minor at VMI (2016).
• my work facilitating a virtual exchange between students at VMI and Shue Yan University (2014).
• my efforts in leading a Study Abroad program to Asia (2010).
• along with my colleagues in the Economics department, the development of a Study Abroad program in Europe during the Summer 2019 semester and a recap of our activities.

Research

• my research, in a blog post at Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, on education and democracy movements (2014).
• my commentary on the role of students in the Hong Kong protests (2014).
• a Fulbright grant I received to study legislative organization in Hong Kong (2019), a follow-up piece that describes my time spent abroad (2020), and an interview about these experiences recorded for the public radio show, With Good Reason (2020).

Service/Mentorship

• the transformation of the VMI ePortfolio program under my tenure as Director (from 2013).
• my trip with student presenters to the National Conference on Undergraduate Research in LaCrosse, WI (2009).
• my collaboration with a student on his published undergraduate research (2012).
• my work with an English department colleague to take cadets to an exhibit of the Terra Cotta Army at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2018).
• the background behind a service fair  I helped to coordinate while serving as faculty advisor to the VMI Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa (2018).