John Deaver Drinko Academy, Marshall University

The heart of the Drinko Academy is a core of several distinguished visiting professors who are given a great deal of latitude to create courses and engage in other educational and scholarly activities that address the mission of the Drinko Center, irrespective of whether or not these courses and activities meet the immediate priorities of the departments. Indeed, they should be encouraged to develop new cross-disciplinary courses that address problems of civic culture and politics from a broad perspective.

Each Drinko professor is recruited on the basis of the following criteria:

Distinction as a scholar and teacher in his or her particular field;
concern, as a scholar and teacher, with broad and important intellectual issues
involving American civic culture and politics, whose work will be of interest to people in
a wide variety of disciplines;
an outstanding record as an undergraduate teacher;
the desire and ability to be an institutional leader and to work with faculty from
across the university, and;
a commitment to the values of an interactive university, and a willingness to address
community audiences as well as university students in their writing and teaching.